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Break-Ups and Breakthroughs by Lisa Messenger
Collective Hub bring out such beautiful books and Lisa Messenger knows what she’s doing. I think that this book is a really great book to look back on and when you’re having a hard time going through a break-up, no matter if it’s a friendship or if it’s a relationship. The book is broken down into 50 tips to help you recover from the break-up and get back on top. What I also really love that is a lot of her books, if not most of her recent ones have all been written in real time and this one was written after her big break up with her fiancé. She…
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Writing with Type 2 Diabetes
Before I get into the writing part I need to explain the journey. Just over a year ago I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. This was a huge issue for me. I was always the one in the family who was the “normal” one. I was fit, happy and didn’t have to worry too much, but my body slowly started to betray me and I didn’t think that this is something that would happen to me, because it just didn’t. But it did. And I’m here one year and one month later feeling very much like my old self again. I didn’t think that I would ever get there.…
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Treachery in Death
For anyone who doesn’t know, I adore JD Robb’s books. I haven’t read any of Nora Roberts’ romance novels but her crime fiction? It’s out of this world good. I got too busy to read so I’m waaaaay behind with her In Death series and honestly? I’m also a little bitter about the covers changing. They were these gorgeous black covers with a flower or some sort of item that worked with the story, they all had a different colour and it was so exciting to see what the next cover would be. This book changed it from that to a completely different cover, one where there are more humans…
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What are Morning Pages?
Morning pages are an exercise coined by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way and it’s one of her basic tools to help artists recover their creativity. They are three pages of long handwriting; I like to use an A5 notebook because it’s easier to carry and I find that it actually better for my own mental health. She does say that A4 would be better but that is a lot of lines to cover and I found it really daunting. And it took me a long time to wrap my head around morning pages, because I thought that they had to be perfect and that they has to…
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Walking In This World – Week 6
This week is all about discovering a sense of boundaries and how exciting this week was. This book has seriously come into my life at the right time because I’m fist pumping and hollering with every essay and every piece of writing in here. I don’t think this happens very often with me, mostly I have to re-read things a few times to have them sink in. Cameron speaks about containment, inflow and day jobs. Really important things that I’m struggling with right now, we’re in Stage 4 lockdown in Melbourne and I’m juggling the icky feelings that’s going on and being one of the lucky ones who’s retail job…
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Book Review: Write Every Day
I stumbled along this book while I was looking for bottles at Target, and I was a bit wary about this. Mostly because it was so ridiculously bright and because I groaned about yet another book about Creative Writing. Pale purple with a big pop of almost neon orange are definitely not something that makes me want to buy a book. I know, we’re all told not to judge a book by its cover, but let’s be real, we all do it and that’s something that isn’t going to change for me. I will admit that I have bought my fair few books that are just plain pretty and have…
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Walking in this World – Week 5
This week is all about Discovering a sense of personal territory and I feel that this was definitely something that I found I resonated with the most. All of the essays are definitely hitting home with collecting my energy, saying no where it counts and really digging in. I feel like WITW is talking to many parts of me, just as TAW had. How many days this week did you do your Morning Pages? I have been better than before but to be honest? Not many. It hard with everything else going on but I’m working on it. Something I’ve been really careful with is not beating myself up about…
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Book Review: Being Boss
I had this written out and my computer seemed to have lost it, which is so frustrating but here we are, again. But also I guess I deserved it, I didn’t save it properly. One of the things I always, alllllwaaays stress is to back up your words or at least implement autosave, I have no idea why mine didn’t do it, but whatever. Clearly it just meant that I had to write it again. I don’t know about you, but I love listening to podcasts and one of the podcasts I really love is Being Boss with Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson. It’s full of so many great tips…
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Writing Wrap Up
11/5-17/5 I had wanted to get this up on Monday but then I updated my website and it broke, twice. Go figure. My web guy got it back for me and I haven’t put that plugin back on. Maybe I didn’t need it in the end. Anyway, moving forward. I thought that it would be cool to actually sit down and see what would happen if I noted what I wrote in a week, and it was really interesting because I used to always think that writing a little bit every day was good and it some cases it is but as I integrate working part time with a big…
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Fury by Rachel Vincent
Ahh the lucky last book on The Menagerie Trilogy: Fury by Rachel Vincent. If you’ve followed along, you’ll know what I’m talking about but if you haven’t here’s my review of Book 1 and Book 2. I have to say that I forgot that I had this, it’s been a little bit stressful and I’ve been consumed by work and my health. I’m going to do an update real soon about my health, I’m managing it but I don’t want it to take over this review. Let’s get into it, but also beware, there may be some spoilers. Fury is the final instalment into the Menagerie Trilogy and where we…
