please excuse this week’s entry w/out caps.
brilliant lesson about self-care – did a task for work that i THOUGHT i had to do because nobody else would (oh my, can you smell the stench of burning human flesh??? – but i digress…)
anywho, that choice resulted in an rsi type injury and now i have to keep keyboarding to short [...]
Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
7 Mar
self-sabotage 101…
28 Feb
Total immersion
I’m feeling the need to immerse myself in SF so have just signed up for TWO events which are serendipitously cheek-by-jowl on the last weekend of March.
A few weeks ago, I submitted to go into the Vic Writers’ Centre “Year of Speculative Fiction” program with Lucy Sussex. Now feeling quite clever about this, BTW, since several people subsequently emailed [...]
14 Feb
Book progress
Right, time to report in for all the Orbiteers and anyone else who is keeping track. Love you for keeping me motivated!
Kindred Spirit is making steady progress at last. Chapter One has been almost entirely rewritten, to up the adrenaline and intrigue. Act 2 has been tightened and expanded where needed. And I’ve found more ways to [...]
31 Jan
The Universe loves me!
For the past week I’ve been consciously practising the Law of Attraction to support me having the Writing Life. (Thanks Kim Falconer for reminding me what I already knew; and for putting me onto Pray Rain Journalling)
Last night, the Universe came through.The thing is, when the Universe delivers, it isn’t always immediately apparent. Sometimes you [...]
22 Jan
The best reason not to blog
Well, the 2009 daily blog resolution didn’t get very far. But that’s because the 2009 WRITING THE NOVEL resolution is going swimmingly!!
I’ve dispensed with all the excuses and the dramas of 2008, I’m back in the saddle – and loving it.
My word count has actually fallen because I’ve taken out scenes that were naff or [...]
4 Sep
Writing again, at last
After months of struggle and doubt and false starts and creative cul-de-sacs, at last I’m back on track with Kindred Spirit – yay!!!
I was going to crap on about all the problems but I figure, who cares? I’d rather talk about the solutions, the strategies that got me over the hurdles.
Spent time lurking on [...]
30 May
A Room of Her Own
Bliss, bliss, triple bliss!!!
At last we’ve moved house and I am sitting at my WRITING DESK with music playing (yes alright, it’s Dire Straits but give the woman a break, she’s had a tough week…) and a tumbler of Sav Blank (note to self, unpack some wine glasses…)
Not completely unpacked yet but the basics are there [...]
18 May
Orbiteers up and running
Thanks to Luke Keioskie the Orbiteers now have our very own squeaky clean website – check us out at http://orbiteers.wordpress.com
14 May
Blasting into orbit?
Wow, just checked stats and found I have had VISITORS – quietly alarmed as this blog is very new. Nevertheless, welcome one and all, please excuse the packing boxes dotted around, I hope to be settled in soon.
Belatedly reporting on the extraordinary phenomenon that was the QWC/Orbit manuscript development program. Part of me is still [...]
