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An Eddying Flight
A website for readers, writers both published and working-on-it, writing teachers, budding academics, and anyone who is interested in stories. Welcome!
Join the ongoing (mis)adventures of Zoë D. Marriott, novelist, freelance writing teacher, and doctoral candidate at the Open University...
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The Moonlit Maze on Netgalley
Hello, Dear Readers! A quick update today and the title says it all: The Moonlit Maze is now available to download on Netgalley! My...
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Sep 18, 20242 min read
Surviving the Query Trenches, & Finding a New Agent
Hello, Dear Readers - welcome back, and my apologies for the long, long, loooong blog hiatus this summer. Things have been happening,...
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Sep 27, 20238 min read
'Re-Imagining Beauty' & 'From Here to Eternity'
Hello, Dear Readers - welcome or welcome back to An Eddying Flight. Today I bring you some delightful linkity. Firstly, my debut...
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May 1, 20232 min read
Publishing my First Academic Journal Paper
Hello, Dear Readers! Welcome back to An Eddying Flight where, today, I'll be talking about the process of getting my very first journal...
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Feb 27, 20237 min read
Best Writing Advice Podcast
Hello, Dear Readers. and welcome back after my - slightly longer than expected - seasonal hiatus. I hope everyone had a wonderful festive...
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Feb 9, 20231 min read
Reflecting on my Research Trip (Part 2: Whitby & York)
Hello, Dear Readers! Welcome back to an Eddying Flight and to my reflection on my first ever PhD research trip, which took me to both...
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Nov 28, 20227 min read
Reflecting on my Research Trip (Part 1: York & Whitby)
Hello, Dear Readers, and welcome back to An Eddying Flight. Today I want to start a two-part reflection on my first research trip as a...
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Nov 14, 20227 min read
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize!
Welcome back to An Eddying Flight, Dear Readers! I'm delighted, thrilled and still slightly in shock to be able to announce: I'm one of...
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Oct 20, 20223 min read
How to Write a (Humanities) Conference Paper
Hello, Dear Readers - welcome back to An Eddying Flight. Firstly, my apologies that the blog has been a little quieter than usual in the...
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Aug 9, 20227 min read
Royal Literary Fund Podcast - "The North Star"
Hello, Dear Readers! Welcome back to An Eddying Flight, where this week I have a podcast for you from the Royal Literary Fund's Writers...
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Jun 13, 20221 min read
The Structure of an Argument
Hello, Dear Readers and welcome back to An Eddying Flight! Today I wanted to share some thoughts about how to get started with academic...
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May 9, 20226 min read
Flailing in the Dark: Getting a Grip as an Early Stage PhD Student
Welcome back to An Eddying Flight, Dear Readers (and apologies in advance, as always, for Wix's formatting insanity - I've done my...
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Mar 14, 20228 min read
'How I Write' - Bite-Sized Audio
Hello and welcome back to An Eddying Flight, Dear Readers. Today I have a little treat for you courtesy of the wonderful folks over at...
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Feb 10, 20221 min read
Away with the Fairies...
When you hear a person described as ‘Away with the fairies’, you imagine someone a bit useless. Someone chronically distracted, with a...
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Feb 7, 20227 min read
The Quest for Ultimate Form (& Why it Doesn't Work)
(Apologies in advance for the weird paragraph spacing throughout this whole piece. Wix's blog formatting is a complete mystery, and even...
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Jan 10, 202213 min read
The Plot Diamond, Part Three: Turning Plots into Stories
Hello, and welcome back to An Eddying Flight. Today I'm tackling the final part of this process which has taken us from inspiration to...
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Dec 6, 20215 min read
The Plot Diamond, Part Two: Turning Ideas into Plots
In last week’s post I introduced the concept of the Plot Diamond – a rejigged plotting pro-forma which partakes of many different ways of...
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Nov 29, 20218 min read
The Plot Diamond, Part One: Turning Inspirations into Ideas
Part one of a three-part series of posts on the nuts and bolts of transforming ideas and inspiration into a coherent plot.
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Nov 22, 20217 min read
Variations on a Theme
I spend an awful lot of time thinking about theme. I didn't always - or at least, I didn't consider it in those terms. I think my...
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Nov 15, 20218 min read
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