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Get the coffee pot ready
It’s that time again, the lead up to NaNoWriMo. Each November hundreds of thousands of writers around the world commit to writing, the goal is to write a 50k word novel over the month, but writers can approach it however it suits them. I’ve done this month long writing sprint five times already (and I…
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A Worthwhile Life
27 minutes is how long it takes my father to reply to my happy birthday email. He says his friends, ‘the great unwashed’, came to sing around the piano to celebrate the eightieth year he’s been alive. I don’t send anything back. 75 minutes is how long it takes to catch up on the life…
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Productivity Hacks – What are yours?
Yesterday I was at the monthly Melbourne Romance Writers’ Guild meeting. We had special guest Anna Campbell come to speak to us about writing through the fear. Anna is a full time writer and she had a lot of great tips for making the most of your writing time. One of the things which really…
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Going Wild – 2017 RWA Conference
I’ve been pretty busy lately, including this blog I wrote for the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild about my trip to Brisbane for the RWA conference. Now I’m working on getting my manuscript ready to submit to some publishers ASAP to take advantage of the renewed enthusiasm from going to the conference. I’ll update you all…
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Is it ever ready?
Last week I finished a manuscript. Well, I typed ‘The End’. It was a project I started as part of last year’s NaNoWriMo and ended up being 104,000 words; my longest manuscript to date. It sort of feels like I’ve finished it, but I know that the next step is starting the editing process. I…
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Radio Silence
It’s been two months since I last posted. That sounds like what you’re supposed to say at confession: ‘It’s been two months since my last confession.’ I’ve had a pretty full on time since then, some of my own creation and some outside of my control. I’ve managed to achieve two important creative goals that I set myself.…
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January 26, 2016
I don’t want to make this post about changing the date. There is so much out there about the reasons that 26 January can be a horrendous day for our First Peoples that I don’t need to add my not very well-educated opinion to it. Instead I want to tell you about what I did…
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Welcome to 2017
Firstly, can I just say that 2017 seems like an absurd number for a year. I finished school in 2002 and that felt quite strange but now I’m even older and it’s 2017. It’s not a real number, it’s not a real year. I feel very old. But back to what I was really going…
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What’s Happened: This Year in Review
Since I finished NaNoWriMo on 30 November this year I’ve done very little writing. I think my writing-brain has gone into hibernation, or possibly it’s just getting to the end of a pretty intense year. I was looking at the goals I set for myself for 2016, here, and thinking about whether I’d achieved the things I…
Fleur Blüm 