Isolation, day 53
Almost two months into Lockdown and Chip wants to know why there's no fish in our fresh vegetables delivery. The rest of us are doing...
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May 10, 20202 min read
Isolation - day 45
31.587 recorded COVID-19 deaths in the UK so far, and 215,260 confirmed cases, but the actual number might be much higher due to lack of...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 11, 20201 min read
Isolation - day 19
We've had the odd meltdown this week, inevitable perhaps with two teenagers stuck in the same house as us. But on the plus side, I've...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 3, 20201 min read
Isolation - day eleven
With added vitamin D. My daughter and I went for our daily walk together and wandered across our local beach. Social distancing was not a...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 30, 20202 min read
Isolation - day seven
I have to admit, I've been struggling the past few days. In spite of my meds I've been feeling anxious and reverted to focusing on the...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 27, 20202 min read
Isolation - day four
I had to go out to the supermarket and pharmacist a couple of times this week. Social distancing is a strange dance and some people seem...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 25, 20201 min read
Isolation - day two
I spent the morning working on the penultimate assignment for the creative writing course. My copies of The Venus Virus arrived, and I...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 24, 20202 min read
Isolation - day one
Disclaimer - I don't live alone, so I am not completely isolated. My elder daughter has returned after her university shut it doors. I...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 11, 20203 min read
Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
What would our vital organs say if they had voices, and how would we react if we overheard their complaints? Colourless Green Ideas Sleep...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 27, 20208 min read
Week eighteen study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
I missed a few weeks of blog updates because of a hectic schedule of a book release, my daughter’s birthday and submitting assignments...
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carmillavoiez
Jan 29, 20207 min read
Week fourteen study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week we were learning about rhetoric and style. It’s a subject that fascinates me so I have done some wider reading, a summary of...
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carmillavoiez
Jan 15, 20202 min read
Horror and Depression
Horror is my comfort blanket. I have lived with depression since my teens. I don’t fit comfortably in this world of ours. Isolation and...
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carmillavoiez
Jan 13, 202010 min read
Week twelve study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
At this point we left drama and learned how to apply the techniques from stage play, radio play and film to pieces of fiction. Exercises...
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carmillavoiez
Dec 19, 20191 min read
Seasonal Greetings from Carmilla Voiez
Happy Yule (or whatever holiday you celebrate). 2019 has been a strange and difficult year for many of us. The world feels like a story...
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carmillavoiez
Dec 10, 20196 min read
Week ten study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was film structure. We learned how films are broken down into acts, which can be broken down into scenes, which can...
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carmillavoiez
Dec 4, 20195 min read
Week nine study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was film making and scripts. It’s been a tough week for me. My elderly cat went missing for a day and a half. He’s...
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carmillavoiez
Nov 26, 20199 min read
Week eight study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was radio drama. We studied a radio play – Smooth Apparatus and how sound effects might be weaponised in drama. The...
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carmillavoiez
Nov 20, 20199 min read
Week seven study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was staging plays. We were reminded this week that conflict is essential in plays (otherwise the audience will be...
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carmillavoiez
Nov 13, 20192 min read
Week six study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was revealing information in drama. We looked at subtext and exposition. Subtext is the “hidden meaning that lies...
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carmillavoiez
Nov 5, 20198 min read
Week five study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week we moved from prose to scripts and looked at the craft of the playwright. I received my marked assignment from weeks 1 – 4....
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