Writing
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NaNoWriMo
I know a few people who have done NaNoWriMo. For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month it was started in 1999 in San Francisco and the aim is to write a novel, that is at least 50,000 words long, in a month. The idea is to help writers to…
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Accepted!
I found out on Thursday that a short story I submitted was accepted to be published in a local writers’ magazine. Now I don’t know exactly what the distribution of the magazine is, nor what sort of scope of readership it has but none the less – I will soon be able to say that…
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To be a poet or worse a novelist!
Now I bet you’re all thinking that I’m going to start talking about my recent writing escapades, but you’d be wrong. In fact I’ve taken this phrase (or at least something very like this phrase) from the play ‘School for Wives’ by Moliere. Last Tuesday I saw the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of School for…
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I found my diary…
I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing some memoirs. At this stage they’re largely for my own use, so that I can process some stuff that’s going on for me, but today I found a diary, an online journal. It has entries dating from May 2001 to September 2007 although most of the entries are from…
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Stupid real life!
I realised today that I haven’t posted anything in more than a week. I feel a little bit bad about this but then again I don’t. I’ve had a lot of real life shit getting in the way of my blog; such as moving house and finding out I need a knee reconstruction. Apart from being…
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Writers’ Groups
A couple of posts ago I told you that I was going to a Writers’ Group. In fact I have been to two in the last week, they were both kind of amazing but quite different in their own way. The first was the Boroondara Writers Group who meet once a month in Balwyn. This…
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Life in Nuggety Bite-sized Chunks
I’ve recently been doing a lot of thinking about how stories are constructed; from what I’m watching on tv, to what I’m reading to what I’m thinking about writing and the thing that has struck me is the way that stories, in particular 1990s sitcoms, deal out nuggets of self-discovery to the characters in convenient…
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I AM A POET!
For those of you who have been following along you would know that I had decided to read some of my poetry at the Dan O’Connell Hotel Saturday Poetry Group in this entry. About Wednesday this week I decided that this week was the week to do it because otherwise I would just keep putting…
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This may be inviting disaster…
But I’ve decided to perform some of my poetry at the Dan O’Connell in the next couple of weeks. I became enamoured of the idea last night after I had a horrible meeting with the group who I am supposed to be doing an Accounting assignment with. I guess it was also the flowering of…
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An adventure in Carlton: Poetry
Today’s adventure/artist date was going to the Dan O’Connell weekly poetry reading session. I have only ever been once before, some time ago, and I haven’t made it back since. True Saturday afternoons are often filled with other social engagements but really I was just wussing out. I asked my friend Jonathan to come with…
Fleur Blüm 