Writing Process
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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 Post Builder Changed Again?
It has a different font and different sizing, and I can’t tell whether I like it or not. It’s not great on my eyes, but hey, maybe it’s strengthening them. The side of my face is starting to hurt again… 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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Two Chapters Left
Two chapters left and about thirty pages. You can really see the issue in that sentence. The last two chapters should probably be a little more than thirty pages, but this is the final massive edit for X and the… 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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Last week … was a week
My second dose of Pfizer really threw me. It wasn’t until I was asleep that it crept in and hit me with a “remember flu season”. I’m still feeling it, but definitely don’t feel as bad as I had when… Continue reading
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I slept for almost 12hrs
It’s not the first time I’ve slept so long, but it’s the first time I’ve done it and I feel pretty good waking up. I think after the couple of hard days of work and dealing with the tooth infection… Continue reading
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Slowing Down or Speeding Up
I have a tooth infection, and the medication is slowing me down. It makes me feel a bit nauseas and it makes my limbs feel kind of sickly and sensitive. I can still move around, but I just move slower.… Continue reading
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The Sound of Natural Silence
Though I’ve become accustomed to living in the city, especially after all these years I miss the sound of natural silence. That sound that you get when you lay out in the field, and it’s just the wind and the… Continue reading
Hopfield is Writing 