March 28, 2020
What are your plans for the hours, weeks or even months ahead, as you face more and more time within in the confines of your home? For those of you about to embark on the homeschooling adventure, whether or not you chose it, who or what are you turning to for assistance to not only […]
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March 14, 2020
It’s Not All About You (or Me)
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If we were to believe social media, it would be easy to think we need to choose either panic or denial in response to the reported risks of COVID-19. Rush to the shops and stock up for doomsday, or proceed as if it should be business as usual. I confess I’d been wondering if too […]
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March 10, 2020
Creative Prompts #8: Marching On
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1. Warm Up: Stream of Consciousness It’s the beginning of March (and Autumn) as I think about this next bunch of creative prompts. And phrases such as ‘time is marching on’ and ‘marching to a different beat’ come to mind in a stream of consciousness kind of way. All cliches of course, but sometimes you […]
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March 3, 2020
With the Perth Festival Literature & Ideas (previously Perth Writers’ Week) over for another year, the books currently on my bedside table, and on my to-buy list, are naturally related to the authors I heard speak over the weekend, and in one case, an author I had the privilege of interviewing. The Palace of Angels […]
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February 4, 2020
I’m ditching social media. Actually, that’s a little misleading. It’s not exactly fake news. And it’s not a deliberate deception. However, it is quite possibly hyperbole. Let me explain. For some time now, I’ve been struggling to consistently apply ‘bum glue’, which Bryce Courtney often said was the necessary ingredient to finishing a novel. For […]
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February 1, 2020
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation. Start at the same place as other readers, add six books that link in any way you want, and see where you end up. I always attempt to include books I’ve either read, or are high on my to-read pile, but you can make up your own rules […]
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