DIY MA

Sep 30, 20222 min read

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, 20212 min read

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, 20212 min read

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, 20212 min read

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, 20202 min read

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

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Why I Wrote "Water and Blood"

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An Ending and Beginning

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An Invitation

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The End of the Beginning

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How I Write 2: Hardcopy and Software

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How I write 1: The physics of it.

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Practice Makes Permanent

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The Path to Writing Proficiency

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Germany v Italy

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Fragments and Frustrations

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Showing and Telling

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View Points

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Tube Strain V2

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Plot Turning Points

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Term 2 Begins

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Starting Over

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A Visit to Santa

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Phew - End of Term 1

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Starlings and Genre

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Emotion and Serendipity

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Stumbling

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Get Set

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Trawling for Traits

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Questing for Character

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Twelve Questions

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Now We Are Two

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Life Intrudes!

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DIY MA - Developing a Routine

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DIY MA - Before the start

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