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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…
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
I realised today that I hadn’t done a blog post to brag about my NaNoWriMo win this year! So here it is! I finished my 50,027 word draft on 29 November. I took the next day off. I have not written any more since, it’s been nearly a week. I think I’m a bit over…
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Everybody Knows
for Leonard They signed this agreement That nobody else had to die Now what can I tell you, my brother, my killer What can I possibly say? And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue And I can’t believe that time’s Gonna heal this…
Fleur Blüm 