Yeah. That ddn't happen. No story nor character. Just bored and irritated that nothing this week seemed applicable in my story setting. So yeah every prompt about a character talking to me, or being in my room felt dumb. I'm not writing for self reflexion. I'm writing to explore a fantasy world through somebody elses eyes. I really wish that next week I can relate more to the exercises or at least adjust them to fit my needs.

Actually, I LOVE the sound of a story of an old man who had a spider for a face!

Writing camp

The first episode in an 8 week writing course that takes you from procrastination and uncertainty to full match-fitness, prepping you for writing and finishing a novel in just 10 minutes a day.

Please buy my novel, The Honours: wordery.com/the-honours-tim-cla…2114765#oid=1908_1

Death Of 1000 Cuts - Couch To 80k - Week 1 Day 1

Week 1 Day 2 of the 8-week Couch to 80k Writing Bootcamp from Death Of 1000 Cuts. Go to http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/couchto80kwritingbootcamp/ for more details on the whole programme and more episodes.

Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Death Of 1000 Cuts - Couch To 80k - Week 1 Day 2

The third day in an 8-week course helping you fire up your fiction writing and get ready to write a novel.

Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Death Of 1000 Cuts - Couch To 80k - Week 1 Day 3

Week 1 Day 4 of Tim Clare's 8 week fiction writing boot camp to get you ready to write a novel. Go to http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/couchto80kwritingbootcamp/ for more details and the full course.

Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Death Of 1000 Cuts - Couch To 80k - Week 1 Day 4

Week 3 comes to a close as we bring together what we've learned so far in an extra-challenging exercise. Only 5 more weeks to go!

Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Death Of 1000 Cuts - Couch To 80k - Week 3 Day 6

Want to write more, and better, and not hate it? On this special New Year motivation mega-episode, Tim Clare (that's me)will leave you so inspired that you may PASS OUT through pure joy and wake up 72 hours later having written an entire novel in a fugue state. Learn the two most common writing resolutions and why they're doomed to fail, hear the best way to custom-build your own writing goal - backed up by peer-reviewed studies - then get fired up with the 7 Steps to Kicking The Dick Off Your Writing. Death Of 1000 Cuts accepts no responsibility if your face MELTS OFF with sheer approval upon listening to this episode.

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Death Of 1000 Cuts - The Big Writing Motivation Episode

In this episode I talk about creative ways of getting unstuck when you're working on a project, and showcase John August's Writer Emergency Pack - a deck of cards designed to help storymakers out of jams. I also review what I've learned from speaking to the various authors I've had as guests on the show so far, and talk about some key takeaways you can apply to your writing practice right now.

NOT ONLY THAT but I drill down into the idea of 'success' and 'failure' as an author, and what they might actually look like for different people. My position is that the most common standard of writing success is responsible for a great deal of suffering and neither conducive to happiness nor creativity.

Finally I announce the big Death Of 1000 Cuts listener survey. Please please please let me know your thoughts! What do you like about the show? What would you like to hear more of? What could you do with less of? Tell me! Gimme feedback!

This is a great episode to listen to if you want to know:
- what are a range of strategies writers use to break through blocks?
- is there just one way of writing successfully?
- how can I avoid burnout as a writer?
- how can I motivate myself?
- are setbacks normal?

Here's a link to John August's Writer Emergency Pack: https://writeremergency.com/

Please support the podcast and me by buying my novel, THE HONOURS: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

If you'd like to help me out with the hosting costs of the podcast, you can drop me a buck or two here: ko-fi.com/timclare

Here's the link to the LISTENER SURVEY - please fill it in! It only takes 5 minutes and I want to know what you think: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/FQ3C3VN

Thank you very much. I appreciate your support.

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Death Of 1000 Cuts - Season 2 Episode 18 - Getting Unstuck & Defining Success (Writing Ramble)

This episode I chat to multi-award-winning writer Helen MacDonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK, about finding the right words, finding your voice, and pushing through in the face of self-doubt.

We discuss her poetic influences, Top Gun, madness, painting and masculine crisis in interbellum England. We really dig down into how you might go about turning your experiences, traumas and big questions into meaningful writing that connects with others. And, as well as talking about how to deal with setbacks and doubt, we cover that so rarely discussed of topics: how to cope with success.

This is a great episode to listen to if you want to know:
- how can I find my voice as a writer?
- what sort of writing routine should I establish?
- how can writing poetry help with my prose?
- what's it like when your book does really well?
- what are some techniques for overcoming low self-confidence?

If you enjoy this episode and you haven't yet read H IS FOR HAWK, I suggest you click here to get it delivered (with free P&P) to your door. It really is as good as the reviews and awards say - I found it magnetically compelling: https://wordery.com/h-is-for-hawk-helen-macdonald-9780099575450#oid=1908_1

Oh, and I did a novel! If you like me and want to do me a solid, chuck me a few pence by buying my book, THE HONOURS, please: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

And you can support the podcast directly via my Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/timclare

Thank you so much for continuing to listen and share Death Of 1000 Cuts.

Death Of 1000 Cuts - Season 2 Episode 28 - Chatting With Helen MacDonald

Ross finds something in an old box of cassette tapes, and sets out to finish a story he started a long long time ago.

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52 The Man Who Saw Tomorrow [4TH BIRTHDAY EPISODE]

Ross Sutherland shares the same name as a Scottish Rugby team. If he searches for his name on Twitter, he tends to find a bunch of teenagers talking about murdering him at the weekend. 
Taken from a live show in Colchester Essex, December '18.

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55  The Other Ross Sutherland

You'll be hard-pressed to find someone who is more passionate and driven about writing than Tim Clare. We talk about Tim's Weekly Writing Workout newsletter, his Couch to 80k Writing Bootcamp as well as his novels The Honours and forthcoming The Ice House.

Plus, of course, we discuss the word count required for reaching the optimum point of neuroplasticity, what Tim learned while talking to the Institute for Procrastination Research and how the same part of your brain is used for processing fiction and reality.

Hosted by Simon Jones, writer and Digital Marketing Manager at the National Centre for Writing.

Find out more about the National Centre for Writing: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/

Links:
Tim talks to the Institute for Procrastination Research: http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/death-of-1000-cuts-season-2-episode-37-chatting-with-tim-pychyl/
Couch to 80k Bootcamp: http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/couchto80kwritingbootcamp/
Weekly Writing Workout: http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/tim-clares-weekly-writing-workout/

Events:
Agent Insight with Eve White: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on/agent-insights-with-eve-white/
Dragon Hall Salon: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on/dragon-hall-salon-3/
All upcoming events: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on

Music by Bennet Maples: https://sonicfruit.co.uk/

#30 How to be a productive writer with Tim Clare

A new short story by Tim Clare. 
Tim's new novel The Ice House is out now: 
https://canongate.co.uk/books/2531-the-ice-house/

59  Scarecrow

We need compassion to help us be tender with our difficulties and not close off to them in fear. This is how healing takes place. This meditation and visualization can help.

Wisdom In The Midst Of Difficulties - Jack Kornfield

Taken from the forthcoming split album from Norwich bands Mega Emotion and Lady Di – releases September 2020
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All songs written and performed by Lady Di.

Lady Di:
Lisa Horton: bass, vocals// Jan Robertson: drums, vocals // Iain Ross: guitar, vocals
credits
releases February 7, 2020
Recorded and produced by Owen Turner at The Sickroom // lyrics by Iain Ross // mastered at Carvery Cuts

P & C Fake Feelings Records 2020

I Know You Know I'm Perfect

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Just a little something I made for a laugh.

Monkey Island. (Theme cover demo)

Death Of 1000 Cuts is a podcast for fiction writers, full of motivational rants, writing exercises, interviews with authors, and detailed critiques of first pages submitted by you, the listeners. Everything you need to write more and better, and love it. Presented by Tim Clare, author of The Honours, The Ice House and We Can't All Be Astronauts, and stand-up poet.

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