It may look to the outside world that I have failed in my one-month writing experiment. I haven’t been posting every day like I said I would. I haven’t even posted anything here for a week. And yet, I would argue that I have achieved my goal of kick-starting my writing habit again, which had [...]
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For anyone who reads bite by bite it will come as no surprise when I say I have depression. I mostly write about that kind of stuff at bite by bite, because the binge eating disorder and depression go hand-in-hand. On this blog, the issue hasn’t really come up before now. I want to write [...]
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When I started my professional writing degree, the thing everyone wanted to be was the wanker who wrote literary fiction. It’s what our lecturers told us was ‘good writing’, and that anything less, anything that was, say, sold in an airport, was unworthy of our efforts. After first year, we progressed into wanting to be [...]
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How do you blog? I ask because I get the impression that a lot of people create carefully-constructed, researched, edited pieces of writing, that they create over days before posting them onto their blogs for the world to see. I, on the other hand, bang together a chunk of prose in about 30 minutes, usually [...]
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As I posted that last entry, declaring to the world my intention to write a post a day, I noticed the heading of the previous entry, which was writing: now comes in mornings. I vaguely seem to recall boldly declaring to the world a few weeks ago that I was going to integrate writing into [...]
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Hello, my name is Kelly and I am a terrible writer. I have been neglecting this dismal website, as well as many (okay, two) other half-finished writing projects. I’ve been blogging over at bite by bite, my website about binge eating disorder, food ethics and the politics of fat, but this little blog right here has been [...]
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This is me and my new ‘writing before work’ experiment. Okay, so I’m starting it out with a blog post – nice and gentle. You know, I haven’t even sat at my desk like this for weeks; I’ve just let shoes and umbrellas and books pile up in my study and closed the door to [...]
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I am a member of a writers’ group that meets once a fortnight. We bring stuff we’re working on to the group and take turns critiquing each others’ writing. It’s a great bunch of people, and we have such diverse writing styles and interests. One woman is workshopping a fantastic book she’s written about the [...]
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I’m currently at the end of day three of a four-day writing workshop. Really, it’s a writing and meditation workshop – not because we spend a lot of time meditating, but because it is introspective and we spend more time quietly reflecting on our work than talking about it (a good thing). It has been [...]
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