Writing
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Lead up to NaNoWriMo
Hello dear readers! This is just a short update post. I haven’t posted for a while, I’m going to blame this largely on going on an overseas trip (I’ll probably write more about that later). I have just come back home to Melbourne and I now realise I have a week to come up with…
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Building Stories
Online dating is full of weird, awkward questions, especially in the initial contact phase, when you don’t really know anything about the other person. Doubly so before you meet and all you have is text. So, this is a (slightly condensed) transcript of a conservation I had today: Him: Is it hard to invent new…
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Romance Writers of Australia Conference
Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend the annual Romance Writers of Australia conference. It was held in Melbourne, my home town, this year so I thought I really should go. The conference consisted of three days of writing and business workshops and seminars. The first day was a full day workshop on plotting…
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Winter nesting
A couple of months ago, I bought an apartment in Melbourne. It’s near a park, and a river, and nice cafes. It has two bedrooms, and only me to live in it. For a while tried to tell myself I wouldn’t spread out into the second bedroom, in case I wanted a housemate or air…
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Auckland Airport
I sit, headphones on, but no music playing I can listen to things around me without attracting attention The woman next to me on a phone call, the two men across the way watching some code of football. Rugby I’d guess based on the city I’m in. Slow revelation of meaning through poetry has never…
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NaPoWriMo Wrap-up
I made it through the challenge of NaPoWriMo again for April 2019! It is always a struggle to feel that my poems are any good when I do this challenge, I seem to churn out so much rubbish, but as with NaNoWriMo, the point is quantity over quality. I will have to set aside some…
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The Painter
‘I have done five layers of background I want to make it twenty,’ she says. ‘What’s the background of?’ I ask. ‘Just colours, like everything I do.’ ‘I spent hours on this one making the background. I was really pleased with it – a rich matte black but then I got drunk when I did…
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NaPoWriMo 2019 WIP
So far I have written eighteen poem as part of NaPoWriMo this year. I wouldn’t necessarily say that they’re all good, but they’re not all bad either. I will probably go back to them later in the year and review them, There’s sure to be a couple that are worth working on. I had be…
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And now for some poetry
It turns out I work best when I’m working on a deadline, and a month-long challenge is like a deadline every day. In April I usually participate in National Poetry Writing Month. Modelled on the popular National Novel Writing Month, which I do in November, NaPoWriMo provides prompts and encouragement to help you come up…
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The month that was, the month to come
Phew! February was the month of book launches. I had my own launch on 17 February, you can read about that here. I also attended three others: a novel, Small Blessings, by Emily Brewin, on 13 February; a poetry collection, Palmistry, by Chris Ringrose, on 23 February; and a collection of poems and photographs, Blue Milonga, by Edward Caruso…
Fleur Blüm 