Writing

Dark House

This poem used to be on the blog somewhere and somewhere along the way it just fell off one of the pages. I was reminded of it while telling SawHole that my angsty poetry would make anyone laugh their ass off. And at my most depressed I certainly wrote a lot of poetry. But this [...]

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Write When You’re Happy

When I first started writing, I could only really write when I was depressed. It’s a teenager angsty thing I suppose. The writing flows when you’re a poor tortured soul. And it’s easy to wallow in the grandioseness of your own patheticness. But writing when I was happier was harder, felt more forced, less natural [...]

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Write the Book

I always felt that my dream was to write a book. I read a review once of a science fiction book. And while that is not a genre that I enjoy at all, what the reviewer had written has stayed with me ever since. They wrote ‘[the author] has re-wired science fiction. Everything is different now.’ And I knew when I read it, that I wanted to do something like that. Something so creative, so unique that it stands completely on its own. It’s hard to even write that, because that dream seems so completely unlikely and unrealistic.

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No Time

Good Goog has been vaguely ignored while I put together the bones of Photo Goog. Not to mention Little People Books, which I think is averaging about a post a month. But since I can’t add eight more hours into the day, I’m ok with that. It’s also meant that the house looks a little [...]

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Guest Post @ Write to Done: 5 Battle Strategies for Winning the War on Perfectionism

I’m guest posting today over at Write to Done. Head over there to check out my post on how perfectionism is not your friend, or even your frenemy – it’s an albatross around your neck. filed in

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Why I Write

So I have this pretty ordinary About Me page. Honestly, who likes writing those things? I should start a blogging carnival where we all write one another a kick-ass ‘About Me’ page. I think everyone would be happy with that. Because as much time as l might spend writing about myself on a day-to-day basis, [...]

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An Australian Fringe Dweller

Being an Australian blogger is interesting. It’s a smaller, more tight-knit community, which is lovely. It’s the sort of place where one of my most loved bloggers, Tiff, was the first person to comment on my blog, back when it was on a free site. We have a Sydney Bloggers Meet Up on Saturday and [...]

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Beautiful Blogger Award

Amber at Unlikely Mama nominated me for my very first blogging award here. Following on from Amber’s post there are a few things I need to do to share the love: 1. thank the person who nominated me for this award 2. copy the award &; place it on my blog 3. link to the [...]

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The Reach

I was watching Julie & Julia tonight. A rare treat to watch a movie, alone and undisturbed. Which makes me sound like a social recluse, which I’m not. But I do love to get completely lost, every now and again. To be completely immersed in something. It got me thinking about writing and the beginning. [...]

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Dude, Where’s My Niche?

I had originally envisaged this post as a guest post on Problogger. Lofty much? And this evening got the rejection e-mail. Darren was of course very kind in his rejection and said he hoped I wouldn’t take it personally because of the sheer volume of emails he gets over at his monster blog. I’m grateful [...]

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