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Daily notes, bi-weekly posts of complete stories and works in progress from award-winning writer, Sarah Dixon.
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A rest is better than a change (opens the original)
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I met friends for coffee yesterday, two days after I came back from holiday. One of them observed that for me, the last few years had been rough. They’re not wrong, and neither are they the first to say that. While I firmly subscribe to the Regina Brett quote, ‘If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back,’ I was sorely in need of that holiday. I didn’t realise how much until we stepped out of the taxi and into the glorious Hotel Osmine in Slano, Croatia.Th
Fifteen More Minutes (opens the original)
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Truth is sillier than fiction (opens the original)
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Back in 2016, one of my short stories was shortlisted for the Luna Press Awards. Titled ‘Beyond Fiction’, I think it was born out of an Hour of Writes entry (sadly, HoW seems to no longer be running) and expanded as I liked the idea. That idea then went on to become the basis of my Masters thesis, a futurist thriller titled ‘The Plot’ that includes one of my favourite characters of all stories: Post-it Note Guy.The common plot thread between all of these was a disquiet with the way the nature of
Fifteen Minutes (opens the original)
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I struggle to find (make) time to write fiction these days. I’ve even wondered if I should just accept the fact that ‘writer’ isn’t the key part of my identity that I thought it was. Unfortunately, nobody told the stories that pop into my head and want to be told. Today I set a timer for fifteen minutes to see what happened. This is the result. What do you think? Should I set the timer again?I never know what I’ll find when I open the front door. Not in a ‘who knows what the kids will have done’
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