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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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Apr 17, 20233 min read
My First Public Lecture - "Next Generation: Arts" Public Lecture series
Hello, Dear Readers! Welcome back to An Eddying Flight, my beloved blog that I don't manage to update nearly as often as I should (I'm...
zdmarriott
Jun 13, 20221 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...
zdmarriott
May 9, 20226 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...
zdmarriott
Jan 10, 202213 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...
zdmarriott
Dec 13, 20219 min read
This PhD Mallarkey: What, Why and How?
Hello, Dear Readers, and welcome back to the blog. This week I felt like focusing on the academic nitty-gritty again, and answering some...
zdmarriott
Dec 6, 20215 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...
zdmarriott
Nov 29, 20218 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...
zdmarriott
Nov 22, 20217 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.
zdmarriott
Nov 15, 20218 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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