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Anniversary Gift – New Release

27 Friday Aug 2021

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Time in the last year or two has become meaningless in a lot of ways. 2020 started with being hit by a car (I refuse to call it an accident), and then we all went into the long lockdown. Things were looking up in early 2021 but we’re back in long lockdown again, perhaps we’ll be able to get out by November? It’s hard to know and I’m not holding my breath.

It dawned on me yesterday (possibly the day before, again, time is weird) that November will mark ten years since I started this blog. I know, what the actual hell, right? I have my thinking cap on for ways to celebrate the anniversary. If it were a wedding anniversary it would be tin (sounds very Kiwi if you ask me), perhaps I’ll work that in somewhere.

The project I can announce that will be ready for November is the release of my new poetry chapbook: Consider the Watchmaker. It is a collection of poems, some of which have been featured here on my blog, and others that are unpublished.

Consider the Watchmaker is available for pre-order on Amazon and various other platforms. At the moment it is only available in ebook format, however I will probably put together print copies, zine style, one day when I’m allowed back into a print shop.

I think of this collection as my anniversary gift to myself, and to you, my loyal fans. It’s been an amazing journey and I’m so glad you’ve been there to experience it with me. May we continue to evolve and adventure for many more years (hopefully with less car collisions and pandemics, thanks all the same).

Four Years!?

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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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 of times recently what I’m up to these days, usually it’s from lovely artists while I’m modellin. We only see one another once every few months and it’s a standard small talk question, but it always feels like it’s difficult for me to answer.

What I’m doing, I suppose, is trying to find a permanent job that will allow me to continue to work on my creative stuff and still pay the rent. Bonus points if the job involves something that will be useful for my creative stuff. Three or four days per week of paid work and three of four days per week of creativ stuff. I’d like to be able to get into a routine where I actually sit down on the weekday(s) that I’m not working and do creative stuff for the same time. Dawn French talks about how she writes as though it were a 9-5 job. 

There’s also a bunch of admin type stuff I want to be doing. Things like finding and submitting for magazines, or creative writing competitions, or networking, those sorts of things which need time set aside for them otherwise they won’t happen. 

But I got a bit sidetracked. I was wishing myself a happy blogoversary! Thank you all for continuing to read this, I need this space as a way to get my thinking in order but it’s always gratifying to know I’m not just talking to myself. 

As a present to you here is the poorly photoshopped cover art I made for my NaNoWriMo novel the other night:

 

*working title only

 
Gotta have Fabio on the cover! Even though there are no bodices to be ripped.

Happy Blogoversary to me!

09 Saturday Nov 2013

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Yesterday was the two year anniversary of starting this blog, and I would have posted this yesterday but I had to work and then I had to get my NaNoWriMo words done and then I was sleepy.

I have achieved a lot of things in the last two years that have made me much happier person, in particular I’ve been able to prioritise my own creative processes and allowed myself the time to spend on them. The very fact that I am attempting NaNoWriMo for the second year in a row and am on track to win again is a testament to this fact. Not only have I pursued my creativity alone, but I have been lucky enough to share it with like minded people. In particular I’d like to mention Louise, who is one of the greatest poets I know, Jonathan, who is a beautiful visual artist, inventor and performer who constantly boosts my ego and pushes me to do things I wouldn’t normally do, and to my lovely Boroondara Writers’ Group who consistently give me great feedback on my work and honest, useful criticisms.

There are, of course, things that I have yet to really achieve. I have been single for the entire two years I’ve had this blog, and while I think it has been a great learning curve for me, and was definitely an important part of my journey, I’d like to think that I’ve grown enough to be able to share my life with someone who will appreciate it. I still work in the ‘real world’ and unfortunately I have had at least my fair share (probably significantly more) of challenges there, so the dream of being able to make a comfortable life from the proceeds of my creative stuff is still a while off. Lastly, I’ve been in therapy for the whole two year period, and we have been struggling to overcome my depression. I have a fantastic relationship with my psychologist, and we do some excellent work together, but I constantly catch myself focusing on how far I still have to go, not on how far I’ve come.

I gave consideration to going back through some of my first blog entries to see whether I’ve changed, but I’m almost scared to do it. Part of me is afraid that nothing will have changed, but a different part of me is afraid that I’ve changed so much that I won’t recognise myself in the stuff I wrote. I know it’s happened before when I found an online journal I kept when I was in high-school.

But anyway, here’s to the next year of exploring myself, of pushing my boundaries and of creating a life that I’m happy to be living. Thank you to everyone who reads this blog, and who comments, I appreciate your support. Thank you to me for sticking with this, for walking the scary path into the unknown, for doing things that we weren’t sure we could do, and for getting up every morning to do it again.  Even if the only person who ever read this blog was me, it would be worthwhile.