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Reflecting on 2018
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house… I was madly cleaning! I have two weeks away from my day job (woo-hoo!) and I usually spend time over the Christmas break doing those jobs around the house I don’t get to normally – like vacuuming the inside of my car, or cleaning the…
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The Australian Dream
after ‘The American Dream’, by Brett Whiteley The brain is a machine susceptible to corruption working away on incomplete data sets The bird builds a nest fills it with eggs, potential life feeds the young on instinct and hope Green and yellow earth flow down to meet the sea intuition and reason fight for primacy…
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Inspiration and Planning
Today I attended the end of year gathering with my poetry group. We get together in an inspiring place, today it was the National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, and we write, if we’re inspired, or sit and ponder, if we’re not inspired. Then we have lunch. I went through the George Baldessin and…
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Post-wrimo comedown
Yesterday I successfully completed my seventh NaNoWriMo challenge! Woohoo!! I did my first in 2012, and have completed at least 50k words each November since then. It’s a little mind boggling; my NaNoWriMo site stats are in the image below. A ‘lifetime’ word count of over 350k words. It seems absurd. That’s not counting anything…
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Just Keep Writing
I arrived back in Melbourne yesterday at 8:00am. It was a red-eye flight and I had very little sleep: I had one screaming toddler, one loud snorer, and a man sitting next to me who seemed unhappy with the amount of space I wanted to take up. I can’t say I blame him, economy seats…
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Letters from abroad
I am coming to you, dear readers, from the Shinkansen service destined for Hiroshima*. I am travelling again! This time I’m going around Japan. I’ve been here for just over a week already, I had a few days in Tokyo on my own before I joined a tour group last Tuesday. I had hoped to…
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Show Review and Other News
Dear readers I’m not sure why I started with that, but there you go. Since I last updated you, Alex found that Milk Bar Mag have put up a review of our little show here. It’s always very gratifying for people you don’t know to say they enjoyed your work! I’m busily preparing to go…
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Next on the list
It was my birthday last week. With all of the goings on for my Fringe Festival show I didn’t have much mental capacity for organising a birthday do, or for contemplating mortality. This week I do! So I’ve been thinking about what it means to be 34. If I think back to when I was younger,…
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Sneaky Preview
Dear readers! It’s started! Two shows down, four to go! Reviews from family and friends are that the show is the funniest thing they’ve ever seen and excellent entertainment value. The drummer from my band, Wasted Monday, Sarah, took this fabulous photo of us on stage on Monday. So much silver! So much silliness! So…
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Holy Crap it’s Coming!
I haven’t been writing much, nor blogging, because I’ve been frantically preparing for my second Melbourne Fringe Festival Show, Fleur and Alexandra are Out of This World. We open on Monday night, we’ve done one dress rehearsal in the venue which was both exciting and terrifying. It’s all coming together but there are a few…
Fleur Blüm 