My Journey
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Let’s talk about why that isn’t a compliment…
Yesterday I attended an end of year picnic with some people from the Life Models’ Society. A person approached me: Them: You look like you’ve lost weight. Me: [laughing] I really haven’t. Them: Then why do you look like you have?Me: [awkwardly ignores the comment and goes back to my previous conversation] Let’s break down…
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NaNo-Success
Well, November felt like it took several years, but I’vecome out the other side with another NaNoWriMo successfully under my belt. Woohoo! For this year’s project I rewrote a story I started in 2014. I had done a full manuscript, 78k words with rewrites, but I didn’t like it; it was in several different points…
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Share-house Woes
I haven’t written here for a while, what with work, the pandemic, and everything else, I’m busy but not interesting. Earlier today, going for my government sactioned daily walk to a local coffee shop, I was listening to Josh Earl’s ‘Dont You Know Who I am?’ podcast and they were walking about crappy housemate stories.…
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Virtual conferencing
I bumped into a real estate agent in the supermarket yesterday who I had some dealings with about eighteen months ago; she recognised me behind my mask from my earrings. ‘How are you? Are you working from home?’ I asked. ‘Yes, I’m getting used to it now after a couple of weeks.’ ‘A couple of…
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Six Months Later…
Global pandemics, like grief, affects each person differently. Some people in my circle have been able to produce a lot of work during the pandemic, others have produced almost none at all. I completed a survey last night on the effect of the pandemic on mental health which included an array of psychological test scales. One scale…
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Das ist verboten
It’s been nearly four months since I was hit by a car. Some of you may be surprised to know that I’m still hobbling around on crutches, although I am rid of the moon boot as of last week. I need one further surgery to get all the metal taken out, it was supposed to…
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The end of NaPoWriMo and other iso-productivity
Yesterday, 30 April 2020, was the last day of NaPoWriMo and I managed to complete my thirty poems in thirty days, as I have in years past. WooHoo!! I didn’t manage to do a poem every day, there were a couple I missed, but I made them up the next day. Many poems were about…
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Cover Reveal and Pre-Orders
In addition to taking isolation selfies, I have been preparing my third novel for release on 1 June 2020. I can now reveal the gorgeous e-book cover, made for me by Charmaine Ross. ‘Cassandra Morton’s life is a mess; her mother just died, her ex is a nightmare and her sister’s in trouble. Jason Harding…
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National Poetry Writing Month
Now we’re all staying home and not leaving the house for reals, I would like to invite you all to join me doing National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). I’ve done it a couple of times before and while some days are harder than others to produce a poem per day, I’ve come out the month…
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I’m gonna be over here…
…doing my own thing, 1.5m away from any other people. So we’re all totally over-loaded with COVID-19 pandemic content, so I’m going to try not to talk about that too much, but it’s changed everything for everyone for the foreseeable future. One of the things that has changed for me is what I want to…
Fleur Blüm 