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The Business of Creating
Last night I managed to get to the 50,000 word target of my fourth year of NaNoWriMo. Huzzah! I was so pleased to have been able to get it done, two days early, and with only a couple of thousand words worth of story to go. I’m going to wrap it up today and tomorrow…
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Blasphememes*
Originally posted on Dances with Cucumbers: *deface religious art with a visual pun, it’s a Blasphememe! We’ve decided that the ‘art’ we’re creating by mashing art works and puns together should be called Blasphememes. Here are some more. We start with Jacqui’s “I came to Berry Caesar, not to praise him”. Then we have Fleur’s…
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Panacea
– the cure for what ails ya! This weekend I went up to a spot called Riverview in the bush near Tatong, Victoria to Panacea. It was part music festival, part yoga festival and all awesome. Organised largley by Chloe, who brings experience from Folk Rhythm & Life, and Stefan, this was the first year Panacea was run.…
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A Short Update
Alright, so things in my life have been going, well, all over the place is probably accurate. So a short update. I reached 30k words in NaNoWriMo last night, I’m more than half way! the band is coming along really well, we’ve got some good songs coming together my job situation is up in the…
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Four Years!?
Yesterday, I got a notification from WordPress to tell me Happy Anniversary! It’s been four years since I started this blog, I’ve written over two hundred posts, which is almost one a week for that whole time! It’s also the fourth I year I’m doing NaNoWriMo, which feels pretty big. I’ve been asked a number…
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Choose Your Own Adventure!
It’s November and that means it’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) time again. I got off to a slow start but I’m cracking along now. I have a very dull/not busy/not hard job at the moment and I’m able to do quite a lot of writing while I’m there. It makes the time go faster…
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Coming Home to Two Bachelors!
Those of you who aren’t following me on Instagram or Facebook may not know that I had my graduation ceremony last night for the Bachelor of Letters from Monash University in Melbourne. I majored in Literature and History. As you can see the outfits are traditionally ridiculous, the ceremony lasts for a million years and…
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Let’s get selfish
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the link between dating and my level of anxiety. There seems to be a very strong correlation between my decision to meet, or try to meet, someone with the goal of being in a romantic relationship with them and my level of self loathing. I spend a lot…
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6 things I wish I’d known earlier
This is what all the kids are writing these days right? Completely useless lists with click-baity titles? Look at me, I’m BuzzFeed! Anyway I thought I’d gave a go at it: 1. You can be in the middle of reading more than one book at once I’m a bit of a late comer to this…
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I am That Woman
I am That Woman. I’m at a market with my sister I pick up a necklace With Frida Kahlo’s face on it. I put it back on the display wrong My sister turns to me, smiling, and asks: “What are you doing?” “Destroying the joint,” I reply, “I’ve been warned about women like you,” She…
Fleur Blüm 