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Weekly Writing Prompt – #35 – Green

Green is often linked with ideas of nature, the environment and life. The colour often has positive connotations and used to express messages such as ‘go’ and ‘safe’. Here are some more things the colour green symbolises – – Growth– Balance– Rebirth– Youth– Wealth– Envy– Jealousy– Sickness– Greed GREEN Inspired by this prompt? Add your […]

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Weekly Writing Prompt – #34- Gold

The colour gold is often used to symbolise wealth, glamour and prosperity, but, depending on the context in which it is used, it can mean things such as:– Love– Courage – Passion – Magic You could base a whole story on an image the colour brings to mind, or maybe use it to highlight a […]

Written by Ashley Hawk

NaNoWriMo 2020 – Day 30 (Final Day)

With November over so is NaNoWriMo. I wrote 525 words for this last day.. My overall count for this month is 37, 067 words. Here are my stats and charts which sums up my progress: And here is my favourite extract from what I’ve written over the month – The faceless child, the details blurred […]

Written by Ashley Hawk

NaNoWriMo 2020 – Day 29

I started planning my novel again today. In the grand scheme of things I didn’t do much, but I did start getting out all of my ideas. This is something I’ll continue to do for a while so I have enough material to put into a book. Some of these ideas won’t work. Others will […]

Written by Ashley Hawk

NaNoWriMo 2020 – Day 28

I’ve started reconstructing my novel. I’m starting with my characters because I’m not sure the one which was meant to be my main character is worthy of that role. At the moment I’m debating between having multiple point of view characters and one. I don’t know if I should focus on the family elements, the […]

Written by Ashley Hawk

NaNoWriMo 2020 – Day 27

Late update because I had a fight with my internet when I tried yesterday. Day 27 had no writing. Sometimes I just need to take a step back and review what I’m doing and where I’m going with my writing. Sometimes there are other commitments which make even writing a hundred words hard. Sometimes unexpected […]

Written by Ashley Hawk

NaNoWriMo 2020 – Day 26

Little update today as I have been focusing on my academic work and didn’t write as much as I would have liked. One thing which has come out of this challenge is a better understanding of what I don’t understand. I have learnt so much about the story and the characters and I certainly feel […]

Written by Ashley Hawk

NaNoWriMo 2020 – Day 25

I would like to briefly talk about formatting here. I don’t just mean the standard way things should be written if you aim to publish (12 point, Times New Roman, double spaced, etc.) but how the look of the text on the page can reflect the words that are being read and create a larger […]

Written by Ashley Hawk

NaNoWriMo 2020 – Day 24

I finished a chapter today, and as I was looking back at the ending I wrote for it I realised I absolutely hated it. I’m not good at endings – not the ends of chapters, not the ends of short stories, not the ends of anything. It did get me thinking though about how I […]