Blogs and creative writing
I’ve set up this page to act as my portfolio and a home for my written work – and to encourage me to continually write and improve!
I have experience in writing many different lengths, formats and topics: see my work in the wild with an SEO-stuffed article about the benefits of pixel marketing, or a descriptive piece on the importance of health and safety measures for disabled workers.
I’m also publishing regular blog posts about the creative writing process, interesting diversions of literature, genre and much more!
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Movement focus: postmodernist literature
First came modernist literature – but in the 1950s and 60s, postmodernist writing emerged as the next logical step on. Characterised by intertextuality and fragmentation, postmodernist writing often rejects meaning…
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Movement focus: literary modernism
Literary modernism is a type of writing characterised by a focus on change, rebirth and destruction. Emerging from an uncertain time where there was a lot of industrial and social…
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Movement focus: absurdist fiction
Absurdist fiction doesn’t take itself too seriously – it relies heavily on comedic and surreal elements to explore darker themes such as existentialism. Oftentimes, absurdist fiction is told non-chronologically, and…
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Diacritical marks and accents
Ever seen letters with squiggles or accents on? These are often called accents, but their full title is diacritics, and they provide clues of a word’s pronunciation. They come in…
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Suffixes and prefixes
Both suffixes and prefixes are tacked onto words to change their meaning. Classed under the wider umbrella of ‘affixes’, they are both bound morphemes, which means that they can’t be…
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American vs. British English
Something that used to catch me out (okay, it still gets me sometimes) is the difference in spelling between American and British English. When the written word was first introduced,…
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