Moving forward without regrets

I had a great catch up with one of my former bosses this week. He’s undoubtedly the best supervising partner I’ve ever had (where I worked that didn’t mean much), though he didn’t really supervise me much as I was often pulled away by other partners for long-term deals and projects. However, I always appreciated
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Book Review: ‘Open’ by Andre Agassi

I’m supposed to be reading all the books I borrowed from the university library in preparation for my novel, but I couldn’t help myself. My physical bookshelves are just about out of space, crammed with books I bought over the last couple of years but haven’t yet started reading, so naturally I went and bought
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Tips to keep your Fantasy World realistic

I don’t want to go into a whole spiel about keeping fantasy worlds realistic because I’m no expert myself. I used to wonder why fantasy worlds need to be realistic in the first place. After all, it is fantasy. Why can’t writers do whatever they want? Well, perhaps realistic is not the right word –
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Farewell 2011…but 2012 is going to epic!

And…we’re back to our regular programming. 2011 was a massive year for me. I made WordPress.com’s “Freshly Pressed” list (with this post). I migrated my website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org (and this is how I did it). I graduated from my masters degree in writing (and this is what I thought of it). I moved
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