Dr. Nicole Basaraba

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, TCD

Nicole Basaraba

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Back to the drawing board – ROW80 check in

As promised, I blogged about visiting Dracula’s Castle last week and look out for tomorrow’s post which will feature another Romanian castle I visited on my vacation and there’s even more to come. So I’ve only written 2,000 words this week. My goal is 5,000 per week (plus more to make up for my slacking during vacation).
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Writers’ Platform-Building Campaign

Ok, so I’m sneaking in another post this week. I can’t believe I’ve posted Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and today! Whew lots of blogging. But there’s a reason. I have just signed up for the Writers’ Platform-building campaign. There’s quite a detailed description on Rach Writes blog about it. So I will brief you: basically its
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Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?

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. I  want to learn what it takes to make it in the world of writing and publishing and nowadays there is a wealth of information on the
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Back on track – ROW80 check in

I had a great vacation and I really did make use of the time to relax and enjoy myself. Now that I’m back from vacation, I’m spending at least an hour working on my WIP every night after work. Well, ok not Tuesday night because it was my first day of work after a two-week
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Last day of vacation and ROW80 check in

So today is my last day of vacation. I didn’t think I would ever say it, but its probably a good thing in some sense. I know, I know it sounds crazy, but hear me out. Firstly, been consuming far too many good “bad” foods. Like cafe frappes, cake, chocolate, fried food, oily food, greasy
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