Inspiration
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Inspiration and Planning
Today I attended the end of year gathering with my poetry group. We get together in an inspiring place, today it was the National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, and we write, if we’re inspired, or sit and ponder, if we’re not inspired. Then we have lunch. I went through the George Baldessin and…
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Post-wrimo comedown
Yesterday I successfully completed my seventh NaNoWriMo challenge! Woohoo!! I did my first in 2012, and have completed at least 50k words each November since then. It’s a little mind boggling; my NaNoWriMo site stats are in the image below. A ‘lifetime’ word count of over 350k words. It seems absurd. That’s not counting anything…
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Just Keep Writing
I arrived back in Melbourne yesterday at 8:00am. It was a red-eye flight and I had very little sleep: I had one screaming toddler, one loud snorer, and a man sitting next to me who seemed unhappy with the amount of space I wanted to take up. I can’t say I blame him, economy seats…
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Show Review and Other News
Dear readers I’m not sure why I started with that, but there you go. Since I last updated you, Alex found that Milk Bar Mag have put up a review of our little show here. It’s always very gratifying for people you don’t know to say they enjoyed your work! I’m busily preparing to go…
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Holy Crap it’s Coming!
I haven’t been writing much, nor blogging, because I’ve been frantically preparing for my second Melbourne Fringe Festival Show, Fleur and Alexandra are Out of This World. We open on Monday night, we’ve done one dress rehearsal in the venue which was both exciting and terrifying. It’s all coming together but there are a few…
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Follow the Leader
Last week I attended a three-day leadership conference in Sydney, hosted by McKinsey & Company. I was nominated by one of the General Managers at work, and they paid for my travel and accommodation. It was 300+ people from all over Australia and from a variety of companies all coming together to learn how to…
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‘Sophie’s Path’ e-book now available
I’m equal parts excited and nervous to announce I’ve released my first self-published novel, Sophie’s Path: A Choose Your Own Romance Adventure. It’s available at all good e-book stores, including Amazon and iTunes, use this link to access your preferred: https://www.books2read.com/Sophies-Path “Sophie Faithful works as a Sales Rep in a big company. She lives in inner Melbourne and…
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Performance Artist
This is one of the poems from my recent NaPoWriMo experiment. I hope you enjoy it. Performance Artist I’m shy I don’t want to talk to people they seem so much more legitimate than me I’m uncomfortable my legs don’t sit nicely when I cross them because of my massive thighs I ate luke-warm,…
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NaPoWrimo – Winning
This is a short post to say I finished NaPoWriMo with thirty new poems. Congratulations to me and anyone else who decided to do the challenge. Some are pretty good, others are a bit wobbly. I only had to catch up one. I went through the poems I had handwritten to put them onto the…
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NaPoWriMo 2018
I did NaPoWriMo two years ago. In the last few months I’ve had loads of compliments for my poetry chapbook, My Body. No Apology, so I’d like to produce some more poems and make a follow up chapbook. Much of the raw material from NaPoWriMo last time was not so great. I guess it’s all…
Fleur Blüm 