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A Sneak Peek into what I’m working on—Tears of Blood
The last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on my latest paranormal romance, as well as that historical romance I’ve told you about previously. Last night, I finished the first chapter an… more →
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Past Perspectives ~ Zadie Smith ‘White Teeth’
wrote 1 week ago: A blog post of my lecture notes on ‘White Teeth’ Smith demonstrates the important but fractured … more →
Writing as the (still living) dead
wrote 1 month ago: In the chapter on ‘The Double’ in Nicholas Royle’s The Uncanny, the writing confro … more →
Still Into You, Bacon. But Not Really.
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wrote 1 month ago: Hello, people of the blogisverse (is that what this is, the blogisverse? Huh, I have a feeling I … more →
Kate Gate and the culture of 'what you see as what you get'
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wrote 2 months ago: Over the weekend of the ‘Royal Wedding’ in April 2011 I was rereading Hilary Mantel … more →
The Sound of my Mind Blowing: The Self vs. The Other
wrote 2 months ago: “How am I not myself?” – I Heart Huckabees. Every Thursday for the past six weeks, … more →
Revamped, Emily Style!
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wrote 2 months ago: I know what you’re all thinking. Emily, what happened to your header? Didn’t you already … more →
Is it possible to "know" something "outside" of yourself?
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wrote 2 months ago: In Contemporary Writing we’re looking at Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild. It’s utterl … more →
Poetry, Matt Haig and Contemporary Writing
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wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been neglecting my blog to catch up on a hell of a lot of reading and for that I apologis … more →
Reading Texts II, Writing to Order and Contemporary Writing
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wrote 3 months ago: Reading Texts this semester consists of poetry (the lovely works of Shakespeare, Donne, Rossetti and … more →
A response to Robert McCrum's 'Commentary' on Bring Up the Bodies
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wrote 3 months ago: Last night Hilary Mantel won the 2012 Costa book of the year for Bring Up the Bodies. Yet there is t … more →
Semester Two, Picking Modules and Vampires
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wrote 3 months ago: Uni has started up again, finally. I have missed this place so, so much. I’m already hungover, … more →
Texspearean Experience--"Merchant of Venice"....Nana's version...Well, a Snippet Anyway! ;-)
wrote 3 months ago: I am working on a contemporary version of the Merchant of Venice–by William Shakespeare. Howev … more →
Words and Silence
wrote 3 months ago: I recently watched Sylvia (2003) directed by Christine Jeffs. It is a fascinating and inspiring film … more →
Beautiful ideas...
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wrote 5 months ago: Read what is written here in this tattoo. It is worth the effort I promise… … more →
Today is the day of the memoir
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wrote 5 months ago: Jeanette Winterson wrote in her recent book Why be happy when you could be normal? that 1985 was … more →
Akala asked 'Who's the Gangster' at Manchester Metropolitan University
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wrote 5 months ago: Thursday 29th November 2012. This event was truly inspirational! If you want to know more… wat … more →
The Unborn Author
wrote 5 months ago: Roland Barthes wrote famously of the death of the author, but what if the author had never been born … more →
ILLUMINATIONS EXHIBITION 2012 - 2013
wrote 6 months ago: This is the link to a recording of my poetry which is part of the Illuminations Exhibition at NUI Ma … more →
That post where I (sort of) tell you what I'm writing for NaNoWriMo and talk a lot about lifts.
wrote 7 months ago: I’ve only ever been trapped in an elevator once. And, admittedly, it was only for about three … more →
