Review #2 – Living the Dream by Lauren Berry (novel)

Set in London, switching focus between two writers Clementine and Emma, Living the Dream is a book full of sexual mishaps and inevitable disappointments. Emma is a semi-successful blogger stuck in a 9-to-5 in the soul-destroying marketing business. Her life is a culmination of tacky company motos and presentations on things she doesn't believe in and …

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Creative Writing Class #3 – The Hairdresser

   I always get one of two reactions from a hairdresser.    The first lot are incredibly excited by all the possibilities with my hair - the kind that has no predetermined direction and lots and lots of hairs to mould and chop into whatever form they want. They love that I have it short …

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Creative Writing Class #2 – Fill in the blanks.

We were all given an opening sentence: The first time (he/she/they/name/I) heard (song) by (artist/band) (he/she/they/name/I) were (up, by, on etc. + place) (action). And so, here is what I cam up with . . . The first time Sam heard Changes by David Bowie he was up on the hill in Pildacre Fields waiting …

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