Author: SarahRHFallon
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Writing with your books adaptation in mind
In a previous role I was lucky enough to meet with one of the CEOs of a pretty major animation studio. They were looking for children’s fiction with non-human protagonists who, rather than being children, were childlike. Think Shrek and Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey. As an aspiring writer I also know that the prevailing […]
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My Favourite Parenting Resources
One of my friends told me when I became pregnant, you’re a researcher, you’ll do your research and you’ll figure it out. She was right. Since then and now having a beautiful and demanding seven-month-old I’ve done enough reading, watching and listening to write a book! But since many books, podcasts and websites already exist, […]
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Writing on the Train
For four months now, I’ve been commuting full time to Sydney. My commute is long, about two hours uninterrupted train time each way. And every time someone asks me how I’m coping with the commute I say I’m fine because it’s four hours, five days a week of guilt and distraction free writing. For the […]
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2018 in Review
I write this on the early train to Sydney. It’s my first day back at my new job, at a major publishing company, after Christmas. It’s the second of January 2019 and I already know this year is gonna rock my life like no other… But lets not get ahead of ourselves. This post is […]
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Writing Practice, Like Actual Practice
I’m a lazy writer. Sometime in the last year, I don’t when, I decided I didn’t need to work at writing anymore. I had a few publications under my belt, heck, I’d won a competition. My work was good, I was good, everything was good. And so I got complacent. I stopped getting […]
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Writing Exercise: The Buffy Effect
I was watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer recently and it occurred to me that it would make an excellent writing exercise. Writing exercises are great to have in your back pocket for when you need an extra boost of inspiration. Exercises, whether you follow them exactly or not, get you thinking critically and […]