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'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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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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zdmarriott
- Feb 27
- 7 min
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 9
- 1 min
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...
zdmarriott
- Mar 14, 2022
- 8 min
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...
zdmarriott
- Feb 17, 2022
- 2 min
Thursday Pick & Mix (#8)
Hello, and welcome back to An Eddying Flight, Dear Readers! It's time for Thursday Pick & Mix - ten minutes of low-pressure, playful...
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- Jan 10, 2022
- 13 min
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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- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Thursday Pick & Mix (#5)
Welcome back, Dear Readers - I hope that this week has treated you well so far. And I hope you're ready to have some honest-to-dog fun...
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- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
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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- Nov 29, 2021
- 8 min
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 22, 2021
- 7 min
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.
zdmarriott
- Nov 11, 2021
- 7 min
Thursday Pick & Mix (#1)
Why do writers write? The answer, of course, is as varied and diverse as the writing community itself. Many writers say that they don't...
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