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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…
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Fuelling your Writing Temple
When I think of food, I always think: Yum, get in my belly! I’m Greek, so if you can’t find a common language barrier, you just feed people. It’s an unofficial rule or something of the like, or at least that’s what I like to think anyway. I grew up around food, the smells of pastisio, moussaka, freshly made bread and kokkinisto (red sauce) meat is something I associated with life. Meals that were made with extra love have always been a highlight in my day. Since moving out and learning about food I decided to nix a lot of things out of my diet (some because it makes me…
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#5minsofwriting
A juicy and loving Writing Practice is a marathon of love. It’s not something that happens overnight and I know that through years and years of love and labour, I can get to my computer and sit down for a short amount of time and just pump out the words, but there are days where I find the idea of sitting down and writing something akin to sitting in the dentist chair (it’s been almost 3 years since my last trip…shhh) and it’s perfectly normal to have these days. Even I struggle with days where the thought of putting my fingers onto the keypad is excruciating and I would…
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Featured on Ruby Wings!
I was lucky to be featured on my friend, Heather’s site, Ruby Wing’s. We chatted about what I love to do, when I realised that what I wanted to do, what my first product I sold was, what animal I’d love to be and who my favourite Goddesses are. Check it out over here.
