Writing
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‘Daydreamings’ release
Today I bring you my interview [socially distanced via the interwebs] with the fabulous Nicole Henriksen. Nicole has written their debut work of prose, Daydreamings, following years writing and performing several award-nominated theatre and comedy shows. Daydreamings is a collection of flash fiction, in which Henriksen dips into the stories of diverse friends, family, and…
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My Mother’s Secret – available now!
Hi Everyone You should know (given I keep telling you) I’m releasing my third novel, My Mother’s Secret today! I just had a launch party on my Facebook author page. If you want to, you can watch it here. I’m also giving away a copy of my book to the best ‘terrible meet cute’ until 7:30pm…
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The end of NaPoWriMo and other iso-productivity
Yesterday, 30 April 2020, was the last day of NaPoWriMo and I managed to complete my thirty poems in thirty days, as I have in years past. WooHoo!! I didn’t manage to do a poem every day, there were a couple I missed, but I made them up the next day. Many poems were about…
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National Poetry Writing Month
Now we’re all staying home and not leaving the house for reals, I would like to invite you all to join me doing National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). I’ve done it a couple of times before and while some days are harder than others to produce a poem per day, I’ve come out the month…
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I’m gonna be over here…
…doing my own thing, 1.5m away from any other people. So we’re all totally over-loaded with COVID-19 pandemic content, so I’m going to try not to talk about that too much, but it’s changed everything for everyone for the foreseeable future. One of the things that has changed for me is what I want to…
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How do I say this…
I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about this for a while. How much to say, what I want the world to know – my friends and family have already heard about it. On January 27 of this year I was hit by a car while riding my bike. The driver failed to…
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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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End of year schedule madness
We’ve entered the realm of Christmas parties and end-of-year celebrations. I had my work party last Wednesday – good chicken, disappointing dessert, my poetry group end-of-year do today and my writing group Christmas party tomorrow! As we’ve done in the past, the poetry group visited the Ian Potter Centre at the National Gallery of Victoria…
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Winning and Procrastination
Yesterday, November 28, 2019 I won NaNoWriMo for the eighth time. I’m proud of myself, but having done it before it doesn’t feel like such a big deal anymore. I’m ready to take a bit of a break from my story, but I have two more days of November to try to get some words…
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ABC
A poem can start with anything But seldom leads to any Cause worth exploring Don’t think about it Everything is worth writing about For yourself, or for someone else Get the idea down, fix it later However, you must remember I can’t be the one to fix it Joust wordily with your thoughts Kill procrastination…
Fleur Blüm 