DIY MA

Sep 30, 2022
2 min

An Ending and Beginning

It has been three years since I started this blog as an accountability tool for my study of writing craft. I was fortunate to be joined...

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Rik Lonsdale

Jun 28, 2021
2 min

An Invitation

An Invitation Since Sept 2019 my buddy, George, and I have been pursuing self-directed study of writing. At our weekly video meetings, we...

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Putting it Through the Typewriter. Again!

Rik Lonsdale

Jan 25, 2021
2 min

Putting it Through the Typewriter. Again!

25th January 2021 If, two years ago, I had written the first draft I have recently completed there would be champagne opened to celebrate...

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Rik Lonsdale

Jan 5, 2021
2 min

The End of the Beginning

My First Draft On 31st December 2020, fifteen months after embarking on the DIY MA syllabus, I printed the 83,000 words of the first...

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Rik Lonsdale

Aug 28, 2020
2 min

Practice Makes Permanent

Practice Makes Permanent Over the last year I’ve changed my approach to writing long form. The long held and much vaunted ‘get it down’...

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DIY MA

My Writing Journey - Update

Nov 27, 2023
3 min

Why I Wrote "Water and Blood"

Sep 2, 2023
2 min

And I thought writing the book was hard!

Feb 3, 2023
2 min

An Ending and Beginning

Sep 30, 2022
2 min

An Invitation

Jun 28, 2021
2 min

Putting it Through the Typewriter. Again!

Jan 25, 2021
2 min

The End of the Beginning

Jan 5, 2021
2 min

How I Write 2: Hardcopy and Software

Oct 23, 2020
2 min

How I write 1: The physics of it.

Sep 25, 2020
3 min

Practice Makes Permanent

Aug 28, 2020
2 min

The Path to Writing Proficiency

Jul 24, 2020
3 min

Germany v Italy

Mar 31, 2020
2 min

Fragments and Frustrations

Mar 14, 2020
2 min

Showing and Telling

Feb 12, 2020
2 min

View Points

Jan 29, 2020
2 min

Tube Strain V2

Jan 22, 2020
10 min

Plot Turning Points

Jan 15, 2020
2 min

Term 2 Begins

Jan 8, 2020
2 min

Starting Over

Jan 1, 2020
2 min

A Visit to Santa

Dec 18, 2019
2 min

Phew - End of Term 1

Dec 11, 2019
3 min

Starlings and Genre

Dec 4, 2019
2 min

Emotion and Serendipity

Nov 27, 2019
2 min

Stumbling

Nov 20, 2019
3 min

Get Set

Nov 13, 2019
3 min

Trawling for Traits

Nov 6, 2019
2 min

Questing for Character

Oct 30, 2019
2 min

Twelve Questions

Oct 23, 2019
2 min

Now We Are Two

Oct 16, 2019
2 min

Life Intrudes!

Oct 10, 2019
3 min

DIY MA - Developing a Routine

Oct 2, 2019
2 min

DIY MA - Before the start

Sep 22, 2019
2 min

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