Dr. Nicole Basaraba

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, TCD

Tag: ROW80

Writers’ Uni-Verse-City – A semester in review

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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October Fall back – ROW80 Check in

So yesterday was “set-the-clocks back” day here in Brussels. And what does that mean? That means and extra hour to steal for yourself to relax, read, watch a movie and procrastinate writing right? Last week‘s ROW80 check in, I mentioned that I had a lot of plotting to do. Well I spent Monday and Tuesday
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Entering unchartered territory – ROW80 check in

There is one thing about being a plotter: you know the details of the story before you get there. As I’ve learned from reading James Scott Bell’s book “Plot & Structure“, I’m a as-far-as-the-headlights-reach type of plotter, which means that I plot detailed chapter outlines about 5-10 chapters in advance. Enough so that I can
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The writing challenge that knows you have a life: ROW80

I happen to be taking the ROW80 tagline “the writing challenge that knows you have a life” pretty seriously today. I don’t really know what happened this week. I always start off well on Monday’s and then somehow every other day of the week seems to have something getting in the way (and this includes
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Happy Turkey Day and ROW80 check in

Well the October 5th ROW80 Twitter party ROCKED! There was snacks and drinks, music and of course lots of dancing. There were so many funny tweets going around that was laughing out loud. On the night of the Twitter party, I also stopped by on a networking event in Brussels. I met some Americans and
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