Studying the Craft
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Today is a Writing Day, I Can Feel It
I have a lot on the agenda this week, but I can feel that I’ll be writing a lot today. It’s almost like the feeling of anxiety, but it’s a mixture of fear and excitement, and all I think about… Continue reading
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The “Creative” Piece I didn’t Submit …
This piece was an experimental piece that I was working on, and reading it back (I forgot it even existed), reminds me of how much my mental health was worse off when I wrote it. It laid my thoughts and… Continue reading
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Assessment Task 1: Literature Review
Note: this was the second literature review that I’d ever written (I failed the first one when I was studying social work at UQ). For some more context, I rewrote the entire essay the day off. I didn’t realise there… Continue reading
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The First Step after the Edit
I forgot the most important thing that comes with a full manuscript. The cover page. The dreaded cover page. I know a lot more about cover pages now than I did when they were fifteen, but when I think about… Continue reading
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Sometimes the pain turns us into conquerors
This can actually be applied to a lot of things when regarding humans, but today I’m just talking about how I’ve managed to edit two chapters of X, and how that only started happening again when I was 6-1-9’d (if… Continue reading
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I need a nap
Busy busy busy. That’s how it has been and that’s how it is going to be for a while. Probably until after the “holiday season”. My knees feel like they’re twenty years older than I am, and I just long… Continue reading
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Just Making Stuff Up: World-Building (at its most basic level)
The main basics I cover when starting world-building is: who, what, where, when? Who are the people? What are the people? Where are they living? When is this? Now, let’s break it down a little bit. I’ll explore a bit… Continue reading
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The Right-hand Side of the Agenda
I got my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine last night, and whilst I don’t feel sick, my left arm does feel like it was in a car accident that the rest of me wasn’t in. I’ve had a lot… Continue reading
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Destiny’s Child sang it, so we should heed it
I am a writer (what), I’m not gon’ give up (what)I’m not gon’ stop (what), I’m gon’ work harder (what)I am a writer (what), I’m gonna make it (what)I will write (what), keep on writin’ (what) The beat might be… Continue reading
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I’m gonna need a bigger whiteboard
Not quite, but I think I have an idea. There are still tasks falling into the “Overdue” section, but I’m also cleaning up more tasks than those falling so it’s looking pretty good this week (cue disaster). BUT, I am… Continue reading
