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Writing Exercise
As part of the Penguin workshop we were given a scenario and 7 minutes to write something about it. I thought I would share it with you, it just goes to show that even when you think you have nothing to write, you can find something. Stimulus: We are at a very fancy party, a…
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Penguin School of Popular Writing
Yesterday I spent the day at the Penguin Publishing headquarters in central Melbourne. I had enrolled to attend their inaugural ‘School of Popular Writing’, a full day workshop designed to give aspiring authors a better idea of what they need to do to get their manuscript published as well as an opportunity to meet people from…
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Urban Parklands Adventure
I took myself on an adventure today and ended up in Box Hill. I went to a park which was called ‘Train Park’ in my family when I was a child because there is a miniature railway there. It’s correct name is ‘Elgar Park’ which is much less fun. The miniature railway still runs every…
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Yes, it’s a New Year’s Resolutions post
I was thinking about not posting anything for New Year’s but I have been spending a lot of time over the last couple of days thinking about resolutions. Last year I didn’t really make any resolutions because I felt like I’d made all the changes I wanted to make in November. I feel a little…
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Abandonned
Today I went on an adventure and ended up in Mordialloc, a beach about half an hour from Melbourne. There is a boat repair place just back from the beach, along the creek, and in front of it are the skeletal remains of dead boats. I think the shadows in this one look a bit like…
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A writer’s voice
Earlier today I worked on some of my memoirs and I was surprised by the difference I felt in my own writer’s voice. I have a theory that the exercise of writing my novel has changed the way I write. A lot of people have told me over the last year or so that you…
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Strange days
I’ve been in a strange place this week. My day job has been quite hard and I have been questioning whether I’m really capable of doing it. I finished writing my novel and have been feeling a bit lost without it, but also creatively exhausted and at the moment sort of dreading having to edit…
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Survived!
This month I have been quiet because I undertook to do NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. The goal was to write a 50,000 (or more) word novel entirely in the month of November. On Monday I submitted my novel to the NaNobots and they confirmed that I had 50,131 words. I WON! My first…
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Just a quick one
I thought I’d just write a quick update to say I’m having a really goo time writing my novel for NaNoWriMo – I’m currently at 27,000 words and still going strong. I’ve also been going really well with my medication, I’ve been feeling like I have more control over my reactions to the world and…
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Blogaversary and update
I have been super busy lately, and as warned, have not been posting much but yesterday, 7 November 2012 was exactly one year since I started this blog. It is also my 82nd post. Amazing. I think it is incredible to look at what I’ve done over the last year, to take stock of all…
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