Inspiration
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Quiz times
I recently submitted a (potentially) humourous quiz that I’d written to the Monash University campus magazine, Lot’s Wife. Unfortunately they chose not to accept the submission, they said it was not suited to their readership and that the concept was ‘overdone’ (they’re probably right). Regardless of this setback, I liked my quiz and feel like you…
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Writing Games
Today I spent a couple of hours this afternoon with a group of people doing writing games. This was organised by through a Writers’ Meetup group and consisted of eight people, none of whom I’d met before as it was my first outing with this group. After a brief period of chatting and socialising the…
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My Easter Challenge
I saw when I was at uni the yesterday that there is a Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. It is in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival which is happening in Melbourne in May. I have about a week off from classes at uni for Easter and while I will be using this…
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Daylesford Adventure
Last Sunday I drove about 120km out of Melbourne to Daylesford. The area is well known for it’s natural mineral springs, and was a favoured holiday spot of families and glitterazzi in times gone by. Apparently my maternal great grandparents were among those who frequented the area. The spring water is slightly fizzy with 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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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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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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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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