Dr. Nicole Basaraba

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, TCD

Month: March 2012

Lessons I’ve Learned About Memoir Writing – Guest Post by Jenny Hansen

Welcome to Writers’ Uni-Verse-City (or WUVC for short because every university has an acronym), a place where writers/bloggers can meet to discuss the craft of writing in the Internet age. WUVC will involve independent research, setting a curriculum and hopefully finding other participants (like you – readers/bloggers/writers) to: chip in, give tips, suggest books and other materials for
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The end is in sight – ROW80 check in

We’re coming up to less that two weeks left of this round. Where did the time go? I know that January and February flew by for me. So I mentioned a few check-in’s ago that I might finish the first draft of my novel by the end of this round of ROW80. Well I am
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Book Review: Anybody Out There? By Marian Keyes

So apparently I’ve been out of the loop on Marian Keyes’ books. The first book I picked up by Keyes was The Other Side of the Story, which is still my favorite, although Angels comes in at a close second, and it is one of her later works. All of her books are stand alone
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Writing a Conspiracy Thriller By Laurence O’Bryan

Welcome to Writers’ Uni-Verse-City (or WUVC for short because every university has an acronym), a place where writers/bloggers can meet to discuss the craft of writing in the Internet age. WUVC will involve independent research, setting a curriculum and hopefully finding other participants (like you – readers/bloggers/writers) to: chip in, give tips, suggest books and other materials for
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Second Novelitis – ROW80 check-in

Last week I came down with “second novelitis”. While I only have a few chapters left to write of my first novel, I had flashes of ideas for a second. I’ve had these flashes for a few months now and I normally (a) email the idea to mysef or (b) write it down on the
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