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carmillavoiez
Jul 15, 20201 min read
Selected pages from the Graphic Novels
Beautiful and haunting images from all three graphic novels - Starblood, Psychonaut, and Black Sun
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carmillavoiez
Jul 4, 20205 min read
The Witch of Witchwood Prison
Melissa Powell had been brought up to think she ws special; on what was supposed to be her night of triumph forty people were slaughtered...
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carmillavoiez
Jul 3, 20206 min read
My Writing Process
When I started out, eleven years ago, I was a pantster. I started with a blank page and nothing beyond a vague idea I wanted to explore...
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carmillavoiez
May 26, 20201 min read
Starblood, video readings and images
Last night I read a murder scene from my debut novel Starblood. I've been reading the book chapter by chapter and you can find chapters 1...
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carmillavoiez
May 14, 20201 min read
The Secret Lives of Melissa Powell
8,600 words into my new novel, "The Secret Lives of Melissa Powell", other possible title include "The Witch of Witchwood" and "The Witch...
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carmillavoiez
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 21, 202016 min read
Stubby, by Lee Franklin
Lee Franklin, writer of this short story, has been an avid reader from a young age and discovered a penchant for the dark. She is...
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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
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 30, 20202 min read
Reading as a writer - Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
This was the third of Woolf's published novels and an experiment in finding her own, modernist, style. In it she considers the difficulty...
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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 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 15, 20196 min read
Elements of Horror, Book Four: Water- a review
Elements of Horror was released earlier this month, and I am honoured to have one of my stories “High Tide” in the collection. I am...
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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 28, 20192 min read
99c Book Sale
This weekend through Cyber-Monday the following books are available for 99c. Some like Starblood, Psychonuat, and The Ballerina and the...
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carmillavoiez
Nov 27, 20195 min read
The Venus Virus - Cover Reveal
New London, 2067, and a diminished Britain struggles to preserve what remains after the Great Flood. Whether this planned city is a...
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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 21, 20191 min read
Basement Beauty, radio play
I'm currently working on a radio play based on my Vampire novella Basement Beauty. I don't know whether anything will come of it, but it...
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