Writing
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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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First day of summer?
I live in Melbourne, Australia, and it’s notorious for having quite changeable weather, and these last few weeks have been no exception. As I write this post I am looking out at grey skies, watching the trees whip around in the wind, and wondering if it will rain soon-some start to summer. On Monday it’s…
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Happy Birthday!
This week it’s my birthday-I’m turning 39, which feels old. At the same time, several people have said it seems young, so perhaps I’m biased by it being the oldest I’ve ever been. I worked on my birthday, I guess I didn’t have to, but it seemed a waste of an annual leave day to…
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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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Is this good tired?
This weekend I attended a writers retreat with members of the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild. We were in a house down on the beautiful, cold, rainy, Mornington Peninsula. Nineteen writers all together, inspiring each other and learning from one another. I came home today, and I’m super tired. Partially in the brain-full-of-new-information way, and partially…
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30 Poems in 30 Days
And now it’s over again for the year. I managed to do all thirty, though not all on their allocated day. At least one I missed as I came down with the dreaded COVID about a week ago. Thankfully, I’m feeling much improved, though not quite back to previous levels of health. I’m going to…
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Simile
Write a poem quick and dirty Like sex pressed up against a wall Write a poem sharp and punchy Like noodle soup with extra chilli Write a poem long and languorous Like a hot bath at the end of a long week Write a poem full of cliched similes Like a children’s book written for…
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NaPoWriMo 2023
People who have followed by blog for a while will know that I have done a NaPoWriMo a few times previously. The basic idea is that I write a poem every day for the month of April. The woman who started it, Maureen Thorson, provides prompts each day, but they’re optional, so sometimes I don’t…
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Do you like audiobooks?
I’m pleased to say I’ve taken advantage of a new offering from Apple Books to have two of my novels read by their AI book narrators. See the links to these two books below: My Mother’s Secret Discovering the Franklins I’m curious to see how these turn out, and would love for some of my…
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Everything has it’s season
The trees around my house have noticed that it’s been autumn for three days and have thus shed a bunch of leaves. It feels very early in the year to be having autumn, but perhaps it’s more about Melbourne having not really had a summer. It was cold and wet until the end of December…
Fleur Blüm 