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CONTENT CREATION 103: The First Draft Is For You
I realised when I started putting together this blog post that I messed up my original plotted out order of this series! Not that it matters in the long run – these tips and tricks aren’t things that have to be chronological. They are simply things I have learned over the years and wish to share. Hopefully, something resonates with you. CONTENT CREATION 101: Commit To What You CreateCONTENT CREATION 102: Find Your Own “Write Drunk, Edit Sober” When you first start working on a project, I think every creator gets lost in the worry about their ‘target audience’. It can be a boon to know who your creation is…
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CONTENT CREATION 102: Find Your Own “Write Drunk, Edit Sober”
Over the years, I’ve come to figure out which tips and tricks found online in the variety of writing advice columns and blogs work for me, which I should discard completely, and which work with a little bit of tweaking. It has all been experimentation and knowing oneself and one’s own writing style. Hopefully someone finds some advice they can use in this series. CONTENT CREATION 101: Commit To What You Create The saying “write drunk, edit sober” is something probably every writer (and content creator) has seen on advice blogs everywhere. Most of the time it is written as a tongue-in-cheek nudge to creators to not overthink their work,…
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CONTENT CREATION 101: Commit To What You Create
I’ve learnt many lessons over the years of creating content. Not all of them may work to you. Experimentation – trial and error, figuring your own path – is something everyone should do for themselves. But if any of these tips that I figured out for myself help you in any way? I’ll be glad to have helped out. One of the first of these lessons was that when you start creating something, you should commit to it. If you are not confident in your content, if you are unhappy or unsure in any sort of way about what you are putting out there, it shows. It shows if you…
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Much About Content Creation
A little while back, I started writing about content creation on LinkedIn. A few notes and things I have learned over the years as I have written, and done art, and written some more. As I have suffered writer’s block and imposter syndrome and struggled with my worth as a creator. The thing about content creation is this – it is not easy. It will never be easy. But practice and working at it makes it seem that way. Not giving up is half the battle. That doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to change your focus, or take a break of course. But don’t give up. That is the main…
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Unreliable Narrators
I’ve been putting off writing this post for a little while. It’s more literary than my usual posts, I suppose. I remember once writing an essay about this topic! But the thing is, in one of my fandom spaces especially, people seem to completely be missing the point that the main character of the series is an unreliable narrator and biased. A mix of Main Character Bias (Protagonist Syndrome) and Unreliable Narrators leads to, well, a mess of a fandom. It is not fun. So I thought, why not talk and break down a little of what makes an unreliable narrator unreliable? Why not bring up two characters who are…
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REVIEW; Element Girls
Title: Element Girls: The Lost GoddessSeries: The Element Girls SeriesAuthor: Giulietta Maria Spudich Genre: Middle Grade, fantasyType: E-bookPublisher: Handersen Publishing Susie, Elizabeth, Tess, and Amelia have been together for as long as they can remember. But things are changing this year, and their friendships are being tested like never before. When Amelia suddenly vanishes, the friends find themselves jetting to Hawaii. They also discover that the amulets they wear as a symbol of their friendship give them elemental powers.Will their new powers be enough to save Amelia from dangers they didn’t even know existed outside of books? Thank you Booktasters and Giulietta Maria Spudich for the copy of the book! Real life happenings kept me from absorbing…
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4 Easy Peasy Tomato-y Recipes
I love tomatoes. Anything with tomatoes, rich and acidic and sweet, is almost always an automatic win for me. Which is a good thing because a lot of North Indian food tends to come with a base of tomatoes. A lot of tadkas involve tomatoes alongside many, many spices, either slow roasted over a flame until mushy, or blended and then cooked. Mmmm, tomato-y goodness. Looking back at the many recipes I’ve tried since I started cooking in earnest some 7, 8 years ago, it’s unsurprising that so many of them involve tomatoes in some way or form. Sauces or slices, vine-ripened or cherry or sun-dried – any and every…
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The Ins & Outs Of Creating Content
When I first got on LinkedIn, I didn’t know what I would ever really post on the site. It seemed intimidating and far too professional and proper for the likes of me. It has been a few years since then, and I think I’ve hit a groove on how I prefer to write articles and posts that translates to here and Ko-Fi very well. Why, then, could it not translate to LinkedIn? Then it was a matter of figuring out what to post. Connecting my platforms to one another was key, and so, writing about creating content has become my thing. There is no ‘one size fits all’ for creating…
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Letters Through The Verse
In mid-2021, a writer I am friends with on Twitch and Discord – MelodyRelody – brought up a writing project of sorts that she wanted to try, and hadn’t had the chance to yet as there was not a group of people who were as interested in it or had the means for it. As it was brought up in HayleyHCreates‘ writing server, naturally, there were a number of us intrigued by it. Interest? Check. Means? For the most part, check. Numbers? Check. And so, “letters through the verse” began. We divided ourselves into two groups – those of us capable of sending physical letters, and those of us who…
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Feel Good; The Hallmark Way
And I thought I had been doing so well too. I suppose that tells me not to pat myself on the back too quickly, huh? My impromptu two week break started because of what will go down as one of the worst weeks of my life. Testing positive for Covid, only for my youngest to fall sick while I was in isolation? Horrible feeling, unable to care for her, unable to go with her to the hospital. On top of that, the same day she was hospitalised, my grandfather passed. Yeah, horrible week, really. But things are looking up. My grandfather was not well for a long time, and he’s…