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Finding Your Writing Why
Find something that you’re passionate about: use that passion and write about it. I was watching the new Gilmore Girls episodes and laughing, sobbing and crying with every part. It was all so beautiful and I’m dying for more. Can we start another petition to get more seasons, please? I mean there’s still so much more to talk about here, how about those last four words, hey? Don’t worry I’m not going to spoil it for anyone, that would be unfair and I did my hardest to not look at any spoilers until I’d watched all four episodes and then I went crazy. I felt like I was watching Rory…
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How to Win NaNoWriMo in Three Days
Okay, I did it in five this year. But this year’s NaNoWriMo was bigger than I expected. Last year and the year before I managed to hit 50k on day 3 and 3.5 respectively. This year I wanted to try to do it in two. I knew I had a massive task ahead but more importantly I knew that I could do it, but turns out…this was not my year and before you moan and go oh god you still finished it in five, let me give you a little back story on why and how I’m such a speed demon when it comes to NaNoWriMo and how my region…
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Remarkability by Lorraine Murphy
Be so good they can’t ignore you. I had the pleasure, earlier this year, to go along to the Business Chicks 9 to Thrive along with my gorgeous friend Kylie (who was lucky enough to score free tickets and asked me to come along, so super grateful for some of the lovely ladies who have entered my life in the last few years). And one of the highlights, well besides the experiencing Henna for the first time was getting to listen to one of the most amazing and dynamic speakers I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch. Lorraine Murphy, head of The Remarkables Group, blazed on stage with a brilliant…
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How to Use your Trusty Writing Journal
Oh, Dreamers, I’ve had some problems. My computer decided it was time to take a bit of a hiatus and wouldn’t go past my login screen, which was upsetting because I had stuff on my computer that wasn’t backed up, but I did have back-ups, the motto here: back up your shit, it saves for headaches later. I’ve also had a dear auntie pass away and been consumed by my Masters work, but that’s okay, most of it has passed and now onto the good days. Today I wanted to talk a little bit about the beloved Writing Journal. I harper on about this over and over in a lot of…
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Rise Sister Rise by Rebecca Campbell
My skin feels tight, my body seems ready for what’s to come and I can already feel the shifts. I finished this book in record time, in comparison to its sister book Light is the new black. I struggled so hardcore to finish and let myself get distracted and put off by the hugeness of the actual book, but once I was done with it I could understand why. It was a book that cracked me wide open, Campbell has a way of writing that gets right into the spaces between and really exposes those cracks. And while I thought I was ready for it, I soooo wasn’t. Rise sister…
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Featured On The Daily Guru
Hey Dreamers! I was very lucky to be featured on The Daily Guru and sharing the 6 best writing hacks to get back to the heart of your most authentic writerly voice. Check it out over here and if you feel called to leave a little note. <3
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What Workshopping Has Done to Me
Dreamers, I’ve fallen in love. I’m back at Uni and studying my little butt off (which is why I’m so quiet on here) and I fell in love with workshopping all over again. You see back in my Flinders days I was pretty cool with everyone telling me how good my writing was. It was a nice little ego boost, then when I was at Melbourne Polytechnic (formerly known as NMIT) I had my arse handed to me on a silver platter. I was too cocky. I took it to heart. I let it get the better of me. My piece was shredded before my eyes and I felt like…
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How to Master your Inner Editor
Let’s talk about this Inner Editor and how to master them. It’s called a bunch of names: inner critic, mean girl/boy, perfectionist, ego etc. but it still has the same role, it’s almost like a figment of your imagination, but of course we know it’s not. Your Inner Editor thrives on the inner turmoil that rocks your foundations when it comes to your writing. They smile at the pain it can bring to your writing life and are fuelled by making you doubt yourself and your abilities. Your Inner Editor is there to strike you down when you think that you’re on the top of the world, or that you’ve…
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Forever a Perpetual Student
It’s true when people say that you never stop learning and never can stop learning, I’m taking it literally as well, because I’m a perpetual student. I’ve got some way exciting news. I leapt and enrolled into a Masters degree. I was hesitant because it wasn’t in my original plan when I enrolled into my Bachelor degree four years ago but mid way through it I knew I wanted to do it. It was both shocking and refreshing, the only thing? I didn’t know where I wanted to do it. There are so many choices out there and I knew that I didn’t want to go back and do it…
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First Drafts Frustrations
I have a love hate relationship with writing first drafts of anything. I have written about it before over here and it’s a topic that I will never get tired of talking about because every first draft is so different from the last. I’ve had first drafts where I struggled to connect with the female character and found the male character easier to write, which for me, is completely left of field and hard to comprehend. I got past that and rounded out that character. I even came back to it and fell in love more, but there are some stories that drive me up the wall. During April I tackled…
