Sarah Hargreaves
Writing, Reading and Listening
Author: Sarah
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What are three objects you couldn’t live without?
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On a rainy Sunday, the day after Valentine’s Day, the boyfriend and I decided to go out for breakfast (we had done nothing for Valentine’s day mind you). After breakfast we went for a stroll down the high street and into a charity shop. I always head straight to the mass of old paperbacks and…
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As I try my hand at writing fiction, I sit scratching my head at how I’m going to actually write. I can envisage a scene, as though I am the character. I can see what they see, hear what they I hear, smell what they smell. I now need to work out how to emulate…
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What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Becoming someone’s line manager at work. For years, I was only responsible for myself at work. If something went wrong, I went to speak to my manager about it. Now, as a line manager of a small team I have to deal with everything. My team…
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Do you believe in fate/destiny? In most cases, people think believing in destiny/fate means that we don’t need to work hard to achieve our goals as they have always been pre determined. I think I have the opposite stance. I can’t help but feel that I am destined to be more and I am not…
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Just close your eyes and jump in? First step is done: I have an idea. I have ideas for scenes and can play them in my head, what I need to work out is how they all fit together into a tangible narrative. I have just downloaded a free trial of Scrivener to see if…
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Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. Rather than a phase being particularly difficult to say goodbye, it was welcoming a phase that snuck up on me without me realising. It’s the phase that we all have to go through. The realisation of what it is to become an adult.…
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If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? ‘I like you’ could become ‘I think you’re nice.’ ‘I like that cardigan’ could be, ‘that’s a pretty cardigan.’ ‘I slept like a log could be ‘I slept similar to a log.’ ‘He was like no, and I was…
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So I’m not reading trashy romantasy anymore but I am still listening to it. It’s good because I can do other things whilst I’m listening and if I phase out for a bit the plot isn’t that sophisticated that I can’t keep up. This was a bit boring to start to be honest. And just…
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What bores you? Like quite a few grown adult men, my boyfriend is addicted to video games, specifically Halo. He would probably interject here and tell me that it’s Halo 2, not Halo – they are very different games. I mean, are they really? They’re all shooting people as quickly as you can. He is…
Sarah Hargreaves 