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October Frights - Day Six - Horror and Depression
Horror is my comfort blanket. Horror is supposed to make people uncomfortable. Claiming the genre is my comfort blanket is...
carmillavoiez
Oct 15, 20222 min read
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40% off books and services
Between September 19th and October 18th, Carmilla Voiez is running a 40% off sale to build her client base. 40% off all editing services...
carmillavoiez
Sep 19, 20221 min read
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Uneasy life
(or challenges of relating to the modern world) Once upon a time there was a fractious baby who cried and wailed until her desperate...
carmillavoiez
Sep 16, 20222 min read
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Death of the working-class writer?
Working-class writers, will they exist in ten years? In a recent phone call with my parents, my mum, who knows I am hoping to qualify to...
carmillavoiez
Jul 4, 20222 min read
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Death, my dearest friend
I have been aware of my mortality for a long time. Before I went to school, lost pets or grandparents, I would sit up at night,...
carmillavoiez
Jun 28, 20221 min read
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The Curse of Self-Doubt
I have had a very challenging weekend, mental health wise, so I thought it might be interesting and useful to write about it. Self-doubt...
carmillavoiez
May 10, 20223 min read
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My journey down the photography rabbit hole.
I received an exciting gift this Christmas. A second-hand digital SLR. My plan is to learn and experiment with one of the manual...
carmillavoiez
Jan 8, 20211 min read
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Nov 28, 20200 min read
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Signed paperbacks on Ebay
This "starving" (well not quite) artist is selling signed paperback copies of her books on Ebay. You can browse them here. Including...
carmillavoiez
Nov 26, 20201 min read
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Autumn Stroll
This morning's walk in photos.
carmillavoiez
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Ribbons, book 4 in the Starblood series
The rum bar seems a cosy setting to wait out the apocalypse.
carmillavoiez
Aug 27, 20206 min read
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Isolation, day 115
If the world does return to normal, I think this will be a very strange period of time that we look back on and scratch our heads over...
carmillavoiez
Jul 21, 20202 min read
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Isolation, day 102
I am old enough to know that there is no perfect town or city, and this will remain my home until my younger daughter is an adult...
carmillavoiez
Jul 6, 20202 min read
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Isolation, day 90
The world seems to have moved on from lock down and social distancing, but Covid19 is still a clear and present danger...
carmillavoiez
Jun 24, 20201 min read
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Not in My Name!
Protecting women as an excuse for racism and denying rights to trans women has a long, problematic and bloody history...
carmillavoiez
Jun 23, 20202 min read
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White Privilege and How to Use it, part 3
In this blog post I’d like to offer a brief (and ridiculously simplified) history about why racism exists...
carmillavoiez
Jun 10, 20205 min read
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White Privilege and How To Use it, part 2
We live in a world full of media that centres whiteness as the default and everything else as other...
carmillavoiez
Jun 8, 20206 min read
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White Privilege and How You Can Use it, part 1
Accepting that you experience white privilege on a daily basis isn’t about admitting you’re bad person...
carmillavoiez
Jun 7, 20203 min read
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The books are the Life
I'm sure I'm not the only bibliophile who loves a few shelfies...
carmillavoiez
May 27, 20201 min read
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Isolation, day 56
I'm celebrating my birthday in Lockdown, while discussing whether or not Lovecraft was a misogynist as well as a racist, spoiler alert-...
carmillavoiez
May 21, 20201 min read
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