The Daily Post asks “What is the most relaxing place in your life?”. When I lived in Brisbane, I used to charge up my dinosaur of a laptop and hotfoot it down to the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. Yes, that is the correct spelling. Hideous isn’t it? If you’re wondering it’s just pronounced “cootha”. They…
The Daily Post asked “Do you like surprises?”. Yes, I realise that I’m a couple of days behind but that was the first one I noticed so I’m going from there. Also, please forgive me for not linking – this stupid computer refreshes my screen to a blank ‘Add New Post’ screen every time I…
I’ve been procrastinating slightly at work today because I’m sick and I came across the Daily Post-Post A Day Challenge. I’ve been neglecting the blog a bit lately, largely thanks to work, study and babies and I figure this could be a way to work back into it. For the record, I have a full…
I have a confession – I don’t read a lot of fiction novels. My tastes really do run towards the fantastical – lots of high fantasy and futuristic sci-fi. I love the imagination and escapism of these kinds of novels and for that reason tend to steer clear of general fiction. So getting close to…
After some consideration I have finally decided on the subject of the novel I will write for this year’s NaNoWriMo. I am going to write something that’s NOT considered fantasy, sci-fi or urban fantasy, something completely out of my comfort zone. I’m going to write about pregnancy, miscarriage, birth-trauma and post-natal depression. There aren’t very…
Since I’m failing spectacularly at long-term goals at the moment, what with my several thousand short-term goals that I’m working on, I’ve decided to give NaNoWriMo a go. Why? A conversation with an old friend in Melbourne this weekend just gone. She abused me for not finishing any of my WIPs. Then my husband jumped…
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