Writing
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Going Wild – 2017 RWA Conference
I’ve been pretty busy lately, including this blog I wrote for the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild about my trip to Brisbane for the RWA conference. Now I’m working on getting my manuscript ready to submit to some publishers ASAP to take advantage of the renewed enthusiasm from going to the conference. I’ll update you all…
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Is it ever ready?
Last week I finished a manuscript. Well, I typed ‘The End’. It was a project I started as part of last year’s NaNoWriMo and ended up being 104,000 words; my longest manuscript to date. It sort of feels like I’ve finished it, but I know that the next step is starting the editing process. I…
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Radio Silence
It’s been two months since I last posted. That sounds like what you’re supposed to say at confession: ‘It’s been two months since my last confession.’ I’ve had a pretty full on time since then, some of my own creation and some outside of my control. I’ve managed to achieve two important creative goals that I set myself.…
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What’s Happened: This Year in Review
Since I finished NaNoWriMo on 30 November this year I’ve done very little writing. I think my writing-brain has gone into hibernation, or possibly it’s just getting to the end of a pretty intense year. I was looking at the goals I set for myself for 2016, here, and thinking about whether I’d achieved the things I…
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
I realised today that I hadn’t done a blog post to brag about my NaNoWriMo win this year! So here it is! I finished my 50,027 word draft on 29 November. I took the next day off. I have not written any more since, it’s been nearly a week. I think I’m a bit over…
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Why do I do it?
I’m in Sydney for a few days giving myself a little holiday, visiting a couple of cool people. I told my friend, a poet, that I was feeling a little anxious about starting NaNoWriMo without a plot, or any characters. She laughed, and asked “why do you do it?” This year will be my fifth time. I…
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Continuous Improvement
The day job that I have at the moment is working in Quality. That means that I spend all day reviewing, rewording and proof reading policies, and doing what’s referred to as continuous improvement. It’s my first job in Quality and I don’t have a strong background in it, but I think continuous improvement comes from…
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Back to Reality
My fringe show is finished. We finished packing up the venue today. Now I have to deal with the flatness that comes with having finished a project. Something that I’ve poured so much energy and emotion and time into is all over. I don’t think we’ll revive the show, which is a little weird in itself. We have…
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The things you learn
We’re less than three weeks away from the opening night of my first ever Melbourne Fringe Festival show: Fleur and Alexandra Save the World. I am approximately equal parts terrified and exhilarated. We still have a lot of props, sets, and costumes to finish, but the script is solid, we have a venue and most of…
