The Final Act
I don’t spend much time thinking about Italian Neorealism. When it comes to filmic styles, I’m more of a classic realism, three-act structure kind of girl. I like my narratives …
Read MoreAuthor Interview: 15 Questions with Eliza S Robinson
1. Which books most impacted your writing style?
My earliest literary inspirations were Celia Rees and Garth Nix. I grew up reading historical fiction, and fantasy, and the first two novels …
December Dreams
As the year comes to a close, the questions of what we value and who we want to be become more prominent. Time is a man-made construct, but we continue …
Read MoreFourth Time Lucky
I lost my sentimentality. I left it somewhere in Tallinn. Perhaps it’s hidden beneath the folds of a duvet cover, or squashed between bottles of cleaning spray in a cupboard …
Read MoreWe Need To Talk (Like, We All Do)
You can feel it, when you’re coming out of a depressive period. You can taste the sheer life force that your coffee contains. The scent of the slightly-squashed raspberries you’re …
Read MoreYou Are What You Watch: Guilty Pleasures, Problematic Faves, and the Shows that Save the Day
In the weeks since the university semester ended, I spent a great deal of time binge-watching all six seasons of “2 Broke Girls”. During the first episode, I didn’t think …
Read MoreConspiracies of Creativity
I am good at getting what I want. To be more specific, I am good at getting what’s good for me. I used to mistake this for me being terrible …
Read MoreI’m Not The Hero In This Story
I was always a bookworm; I grew up reading novels in lieu of living a life. For as long as I can remember, I lived vicariously through the experiences of …
Read MoreBecoming the Butterfly
The end of my second year of university crept up on me so softly, I almost missed it. I was aware of the passing of time, of the ending of …
Read MoreBack to Square One: Rewriting My Novel, Six Years On
Six years ago today, I started writing a novel. I was fourteen years old, and it was the third novel I went on to complete — the first that wasn’t …
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Eliza S Robinson
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