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A Triumphant Return to Confest
It feels like it’s been a while since I checked in with this blog (though it was only a bit over a month ago). In the last few years I’ve been doing NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) in April. NaPoWriMo, led by Maureen Thorson, is inspired by NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) which traditionally happens…
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Trope Actually Wrap Up
I’m sitting at the airport waiting to fly from Adelaide back to Melbourne after an epic three days of writing content at the Romance Writers’ of Australia annual conference, this year called ‘Trope Actually‘. Friday, I attended the academic symposium portion. I enjoyed presentations from several academics who were researching/had researched romance writing and related…
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I’m on a boat!*
I recently went on a cruise for two weeks to New Zealand. It was pretty good, all in all. Here is a picture of me eating icecream for evidence. Things I learned (fun): Other things I learned (less fun): Verdict: Would cruise again, but perhaps not for a while, and maybe I’ll take a friend…
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It’s been real, 2023.
As is my tradition at the end of the year, I’m writing this post to wrap up and update you all on my progress against the goals I set at the start of the year, you can read about them in my Welcome to 2023 post. Here’s the list of goals: This year has had…
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I’ve been busy!
I haven’t posted here for over two months, I feel a little bit bad about that, but in my defence, I’ve been doing things in the real world, so I guess there’s that. Ever since January 2020 my world has been topsy turvy – I was in a car accident and then we had the…
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Share-house Woes
I haven’t written here for a while, what with work, the pandemic, and everything else, I’m busy but not interesting. Earlier today, going for my government sactioned daily walk to a local coffee shop, I was listening to Josh Earl’s ‘Dont You Know Who I am?’ podcast and they were walking about crappy housemate stories.…
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Auckland Writers’ Festival
I’m a subscriber of an online literary magazine, Kill You Darlings. They’ve been around since 2009 and I admit I don’t read as many articles as I probably should. What I do pay attention to are the excellent competitions. One I recently entered was to win tickets to the Auckland Writers Festival 12-17 May 2020.…
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Reflections on 2019
Firstly, this is my 301st blog post! Wow! I completely missed the fact I’d hit three hundred when I published the last one. My first post here was 7 November 2011. It seems like a lifetime ago, although eight years is a pretty long time too. I’ve done a lot of stuff in that time,…
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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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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…
Fleur Blüm 