An Eddying Flight

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My First Public Lecture - "Next Generation: Arts" Public Lecture series

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Apr 17, 20233 min

Journey to a PhD

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...

Royal Literary Fund Podcast - "The North Star"

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Jun 13, 20221 min

Writing Craft

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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May 9, 20226 min

Writing Craft

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...

The Quest for Ultimate Form (& Why it Doesn't Work)

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Jan 10, 202213 min

Writing Craft

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

Journey to a PhD

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...

The Plot Diamond, Part Three: Turning Plots into Stories

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Dec 6, 20215 min

Writing Craft

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...

The Plot Diamond, Part Two: Turning Ideas into Plots

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Nov 29, 20218 min

Writing Craft

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...

The Plot Diamond, Part One: Turning Inspirations into Ideas

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Nov 22, 20217 min

Writing Craft

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 15, 20218 min

Journey to a PhD

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...