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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
It might feel as though it’s the wrong time of year to be focusing on endings. Surely, January is for opening lines not closing ones?...
Matt Kendrick
Jan 7, 20237 min read
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Being Kind to Ourselves as Writers
When I first started writing, I was one of those people who naively think that writing is easy. I had an idea for a story. Inside my...
Matt Kendrick
Dec 14, 20227 min read
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Tiny Time Machines
I love historical fiction. History is vast and within that vastness, there’s an endless possibility for stories. Every time period, every...
Matt Kendrick
Oct 31, 20228 min read
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In It To Win It
Writing competitions are funny things. For me, there is a slight dissonance between producing a piece of art and asking someone to judge...
Matt Kendrick
Sep 20, 20227 min read
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The Price of Admission
It always feels uncomfortable, to me, to talk about money. It is an essential part of modern life. We need money to buy food and clothes...
Matt Kendrick
Aug 22, 20226 min read
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Original-Flavoured Stories
Over the past couple of years, I’ve provided feedback and line edits on over a thousand short-fiction pieces from microfiction to...
Matt Kendrick
Jul 11, 20227 min read
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In Loco Magistri
A review of “Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash” (Michael Loveday, Ad Hoc Fiction) from a teacher’s perspective Before I started reading...
Matt Kendrick
Jun 27, 20226 min read
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Ripping Up the Rulebook
Every so often, I like to go off on a bit of a rant about writing rules. We’re all aware of them, these seemingly gold-plated...
Matt Kendrick
May 16, 20227 min read
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Eek! It’s All Become a Little Tense
When we talk about the key ingredients that go into a story, one thing that is usually stipulated as essential is the need for conflict....
Matt Kendrick
Apr 22, 20228 min read
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Notes from the Editor's Deck
Over the past couple of years, I’ve provided feedback and line edits on over a thousand short-fiction pieces from microfiction to...
Matt Kendrick
Mar 8, 20227 min read
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Choosing an Outfit for a Skeleton
Five Strategies for Making Characters Come to Life When I’m critiquing short fiction, especially flash fiction, a feedback comment I...
Matt Kendrick
Feb 2, 20226 min read
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Breaking the Shell of a Soft-boiled Egg
Since we’re in the opening few days of a brand new year, I thought it might be appropriate to write about opening lines in fiction. Where...
Matt Kendrick
Jan 3, 20228 min read
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WBTL Publications 2021
When I made the decision a year and a bit ago to launch an online course on the topic of lyrical writing, I thought in a best case...
Matt Kendrick
Dec 6, 20217 min read
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That Which We Call a Rose
I often see flash fiction writers talking about how difficult it is to come up with titles for their stories. They’ve done all the hard...
Matt Kendrick
Oct 25, 20219 min read
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1349 Days Under the Weather
This is likely to be a ramble. I’ve sat down to write this blog post too many times to count and I’ve never managed to make it to the...
Matt Kendrick
Sep 6, 20219 min read
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The Many Rs of Reading, Reading, Reading
Reading is reading, right? We learn to read when we’re little and, once we’ve got the hang of it, it’s pretty much a skill ticked off the...
Matt Kendrick
Jun 7, 20218 min read
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The Improvement Illusion
I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching just recently about where I’m at as a writer. Over the last year, it has felt a bit like I’ve...
Matt Kendrick
Mar 9, 20218 min read
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Breathing New Life into Old Tales
The idea of taking a well-known story and putting a new spin on it is nothing new. If you look at Shakespeare as an example, very few of...
Matt Kendrick
Sep 7, 20208 min read
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How We Fit In
In our modern world, we are so often defined by labels – our nationality, our skin colour, our gender, our sexuality, our age, our...
Matt Kendrick
Jul 13, 20207 min read
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It's All a Little Odd
At the end of last year, I was lucky enough to take part in a wonderful workshop led by Gaynor Jones called "Go Weird or Go Home." Its...
Matt Kendrick
Jun 15, 20207 min read
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