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Every Writer Needs a Place
I’ve been having a bit of a hard time with blog posts lately and largely I think that’s because I’ve been stressing out so much with trying to have enough income to support myself so I can stay in my apartment that is, very much, home to me. I got a promotion at work and I’m currently 2IC at an outlet store with a fantabulous manager and a great team. I was a little hesitant to move because my old store was so close to me, but now I’m so damn glad that I was able to do it. I’m much happier and life is a little shiny around the…
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Writing Wednesday
Easter is on it’s way and what better what to celebrate than with chocolate? For me, my easter is next week, I’m Greek, so we get all of the discounted easter eggs, which is always the best! This weeks prompt is all about chocolate so go wild. You get sent a basket of ingredients to make chocolate…what kind do you make? Explore it and tell me in detail how you do it. Remember to send your entries to dreaming (at) dreamingfullyawake (dot) com for a chance to be features on my Sharing Sunday, which will be starting up again, really soon!
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Adelaide Writers’ Week 2015
For the first time since I moved to Melbourne I attended the Adelaide Writers’ Week in (you guessed it, Adelaide) I had a duel sort of purpose for being down, one was this and the other was that I officially became godmother to the most adorable little man on the planet. Bliss. It was also, in short, a great little holiday I needed where I read, caught up with old friends, found out lots of new things as well as looked back on the past, but enough about that. What you really want to know about is the Writers’ Week. Being on a come down from almost being burnt out…
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Writing Wednesday
Today’s Writing Wednesday piece is about something I know that everyone can’t live without! Food! I know, it’s hard to imagine what life would be like if we didn’t have the simple and yummy joy of food. You walk into a food court and there are so many choices to choose from, what do you choose and how do you choose it? Don’t forget to send your tries into me at dreaming (at) dreamingfullyawake (dot) com for a chance to get free editing.
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Writing: A Form of Emotional Release
I learned a long time ago that writing was a form of emotional release for me. It was a way for me to cope with the world; an escape. What I didn’t realise was that sometimes it’s a bad thing to do. Why you ask? I’ll tell you why. I finished editing my first novel and I’m now in the process of going through my second novel to start rewrites next month and I cam across a scene where I’ve had to kill a character. A character that is a huge part in a lot of my character’s life. A father figure. And right now, as I am going through…
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Writing Wednesday
And it’s here again. Writing Wednesday has come around again. Where has the week gone? I was a little silent on the blog (even though I had the burning urge to write) due to some updates with my hosting, but all is good now and here we are! Yay. I’ve had lots of conversations in the last week about technology and social media. Sometimes it can be a real drag. So it’s fitting that today’s writing prompt is about technology. Your character wakes up in a world where technology as we know, is a thing of the past, literally. What sorts of things are out now and explain it,…
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Writing Wednesday
I’m back from my holiday back home and this weeks Writing Wednesday came up from a conversation that I had with a childhood friend. As a kid I always wanted to be a teacher, there was something about it that always drew me closer, but when I realised the amount of patience I needed to not go insane, I decided against it and I’m glad I did, because if I was a teacher I wouldn’t be writing this to you guys right here! What was your character’s (or yours) childhood dream job? Tell me all about it. Don’t forget to send your tries to dreaming (at) dreamingfullyawake (dot) com…
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Finding The Write Distance
It’s no surprise that I love writing fiction. And I know that what I do isn’t perfect, it’s why editing exists because you need to keep remoulding, revising and revitalising your work to get it close to perfect. I’ll always find something wrong with my writing, but I’m a perfectionist, so it’s probably not a good thing to look at me (ha!). Today’s blog is about distance and finding the write distance in both your writing and in your editing. You’re probably looking at me and going, why the hell have you put the wrong right in title? Well for one, I’m covering two different types of distances. One that is…
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Writing Wednesday
It’s another Writing Wednesday, and what a good Wednesday it is. I’m up at the Adelaide Writers’ Week and I’m volunteering. It’s been years since I’ve been to the writers’ week and they’ve made it beautiful. It’s been fun. Today’s writing prompt is all about TV Shows. I’ve been binging on Banshee, which is so damn addictive. You’re character’s favourite show is something that’s so far out of the norm, how do they react to it when that show is better than their reality. Write it out. Don’t forget to send your tries to dreaming (at) dreamingfullyawake (dot) com
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Writing Wednesday
I’m in Adelaide for the Writers’ Week that starts on Saturday and I’m a little excited to get to volunteer for it. Woop but in saying that today’s Writing Wednesday is probably one of my favourite things to write about. I like testing the boundaries in stories and I love characters that do it even more. It’s like a pet love of mine. I have no idea why, but today’s prompt is all about that. You’re character has just been given an order to not go out in the shit storm that’s about too happen, but of course they are. Explain what happens and how they test the boundaries…