This blog originally ran between November 2014 and February 2017.
It was run by me, Enette, as a teenager and was mostly used as a place to share creative writing advice. Of course, since I was 15, I was by no means an expert on the subject. My only qualifications were that I wrote a lot and self-studied the theory.
At the time I fancied, I would become a writer. I read manuals, took courses, and did my own research. The ferocity of my research was only matched by my actual writing. Those years were spent writing novel after novel with short stories stuffed in between.
At the risk of sounding cliché, these stories provided me company and comfort. I loved every one of my characters. I loved the plots that even I couldn’t always predict. In essence, I loved how these stories had a life of their own.
The blog was a parallel hobby to the writing. I have always loved to teach people things, and by teaching creative writing theory I learned to understand the concepts. My stories sort of did what they wanted, but the theory that solidified them came to life here, when I was teaching it. So, for this period, as I learned new skills and concepts I would come here and present it to anyone interested.
Unfortunately, in 2017 I ran into some health problems, and with it, all this joy came to an end.
I no longer felt like writing. The characters couldn’t be forced to live. I couldn’t force myself to finish a novel and trust me I tried.
Since I was no longer writing the blog also sort of just… fell apart. And that was the end of that.
It’s been seven years since. My writing was not completely dead at that time, and I actually went and got a degree in creative writing. Pursuing the degree was a combination of great fun and terrible grief, but still, I never wrote another novel.
Right now, I am studying for my second degree (I want to be a teacher) and slowly but surely the stories are coming back to me. They’re coming back unprompted, without force, like old friends I haven’t seen in a while.
They tug at me, and I want to give them a space to exist.
So now we’re back here at the blog.
I am not the same person anymore. But I still love writing. I still love writing theory. And I still love teaching. I’m thinking perhaps, with some patience extended to myself, this blog can also be something that is both new and the same.
The very loose plan from here is to return to sharing lessons on creative writing here. Lessons that I’ve known for years will be shared amongst the new things that I learn every day. I hope that these posts will be able to help you too. I hope to help you bring your stories to life as well.
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