Don’t you just love to play around with photoshop and see what happens? Well, today I decided to have a go at making a front cover for EverWayward. It is very basic, just a title, figure and text blurred, with a background. I think it looks cool though. Notice the pen name, lol.

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I know that at the end of my final novel, I will pour a wagon-full of emotion onto my last line. Look at this one:
…you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on - Samuel Beckett in The Unnamable — the final 11 words of a nine-page sentence.
I loved that, so powerful. I […]

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Encouraging cancer patients to write down their deepest fears about the disease may improve their quality of life, according to a US study. Nancy Morgan, a “writing clinician”, approached patients waiting in a clinic at a cancer centre in Washington DC. Half those who took part said the exercise changed the way they […]

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This is my first online blog - or at least, the first one I have put into my website. I have one on LiveJournal, the Young Writer’s Society, and others dotted here and there. I originally set out to create just a private blog for myself, to keep up with my novel, but now I have decided to provide information generally in the world of writing, with today as an exception.

So yes, today I made this place! I had a few troubles at first. I didn’t understand MySQL databases and all that, which were all important for this blog, but I am getting there!

In terms of my novel, well there isn’t much to tell today. I need to write up some notes I threw together last night and try and get to the 21000 word mark.

-Mark

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