Category Archives: Writing

Ode to Procrastination

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Earthoak

Welcome. It’s that time of year when research deadlines and marking pile up into a dark, ominous cumulonimbus above my head; so my usual blog topics will need to wait. But as I left home for work on Tuesday morning … Continue reading →

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Tolkien’s Art and How it Influenced His Writing: Drawing to Discover

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Earthoak

Tolkien’s artwork, rather than his writing, was my first gateway to Middle-earth; so Jeffrey J. MacLeod’s and Anna Smol’s recent article “Visualizing the Word: Tolkien as Artist and Writer” (Tolkien Studies, volume 14) is of particular interest to me.  The … Continue reading →

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On Writing Freely and ‘NaNoWriMo’

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Earthoak

I am sure many people reading this know about NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month, which is now apparently.  In honour of this month a friend shared the following page: https://www.writeinvisible.com This enables you to write up to 500 words without … Continue reading →

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