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Word Maze - what I'm learning about writing

The second season of Word Maze is all about writing fiction.

Pilar abandoned NaNoWriMo but is continuing with her story. Writing, struggling, reading (favourite mode of procrastination) and podcasting her journey. 

Please visit www.pilarwrites.com for information on your host.

Dec 17, 2017

Words featured in today's episode:

stipend
miscreant
asinine
maudlin
tendrils
assuage
desuetude
inchoate
oneiromancy

Pilar's book: Hi, I'm Here for a Recording. The ordinary life of a voiceover artist.  

At 15:25mins you can find some writing advice from Pilar today, something she's learned while reading "So Many Ways...


Dec 3, 2017

In today's episode, we cover the words:

emetic
deliberative
cantilevered
frangipani
conniptions
conflagration
schadenfreude
scuzzy
rebuke

Books covered

Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla
Back Story by David Mitchell

and Pilar's own Hi, I'm Here for a Recording. The ordinary life of a voiceover...


Nov 25, 2017

 A new scene with a secondary character, a small twist and this quote from Grant Faulkner:

"Don’t write what you know, write what you want to know."


Nov 19, 2017

The first part of the episode covers the words:

 

Alacrity

Avuncular 

Matelot

Redolent

Obverse

Ecumenical 

Peripatetic 

Arcana

At 13:30mins you can find some writing advice from Pilar today, inspired by something she observed in one of the books featured today:

Exposure, by Helen Dunmore
Hotel Alpha, by Mark Watson


Nov 19, 2017

I shouldn't have gone back to my first half, but I did and saw that the timeline is a mess. 

What I've discovered about my protagonist's father and one of her rituals. 

Why I need to develop "Steve" and what I discovered about him. 

Is my character becoming a bit monotonous?!