I was off to a good start, wasn’t I? Then Easter came and I had five days off with my husband. I used the time to catch up on my real-world assignments, as in the assignments for my university course which I am attempting while also doing a writing course and looking after Little Squiggle.…
I mention George R R Martin’s ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ series a lot, both online and in real life. The reason I love his work so much is that he’s not afraid to take risks with his characters. He is not afraid to kill off a beloved (or not) character, and does so frequently.…
I made some little changes to the site today. It looks like a big change, but all I did was change the theme. I decided that the previous one was too hard to read and I didn’t like that the comment and tag buttons were so close together. It all looked a little smooshed in.…
I’ve finished the first chapter, hurrah! I tweaked it a little bit, as I mentioned in a previous post, so that it led straight into the action and leaves you with a little cliffhanger at the end. The cliffhanger’s a little obvious to the reader given the paranormal theme of the story, but the protagonist…
I sat down tonight with the intention to jot down a few paragraphs about a story people are continuously begging me to tell – the birth of my daughter. It’s not exactly the ordinary, run of the mill birth story – she was born in the middle of a cyclone evacuation and it’s not a…
I’ve just finished the course materials for module one of the the course I am taking through the Sydney Writer’s Centre and finished my first writing assignment. I’m quite curious to read what kind of feedback I might receive. We were asked to think of a place we knew well, picture how it looks, sounds…
My first week of my 100 words a day challenge has thus far been a success! I’m so pleased with myself! I’ve done quite a bit of work on this manuscript, although it doesn’t seem like it at the moment because I’ve rewritten the opening scene a few times to try and get it right.…
760 words today. I’m on fire. I haven’t gotten to my Sydney Writer’s work yet, I spent all day in and out of the x-ray/ultrasound clinic and then for another hour or so at the doctors. The verdict – cholecystectomy (fancy word meaning cutting out my gallbladder). Very unimpressed with the verdict, but given the…
I have had a terrible start to my goal this weekend. I woke up at 4am Saturday with the most excrutiating back pain, which then spread through my ribs and stomach. This wasn’t the first time I’d experienced this, but it was by far the most painful. I’d depleted my drug cabinet last time and…
I’ve been reading quite a few blogs on writing recently and a few blog posts written by various authors, guest posts by aforementioned various authors linked via Twitter and then the blogs that host the guest posts. You could say I’ve been reading a lot instead of actually doing anything, which is partially true, but…
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