November 4, 2023
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, which I have been AWOL from since May, but I’m here now. In Six Degrees of Separation, Kate from booksaremyfavouriteandbest gives us the name of a book and we all link it to six others in any way our brains choose to make random connections. This month, the […]
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July 4, 2023
Creative Writing Prompts: Winter
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It’s been pretty wet and cold where I live – and so dark in the mornings. I’m usually a morning person, with a walk around a nearby lake almost every day, even when my walking partner cancels on me at the last minute. But even I haven’t been forcing myself out of bed the last […]
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May 21, 2023
Do you have favourite podcasts you subscribe to and listen to regularly, or do you stumble across individual episodes somewhat by random. I often discover new podcasts when a fellow writer posts a link to a conversation about their new book and/or writing process or bookish friends share an interview with the author of a […]
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May 6, 2023
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, in which book lovers everywhere are invited to start with the book nominated by Kate from booksaremyfavouriteandbest and connect it to six others in whatever way your mind makes random connections. This month, we’re beginning with Hydra by Adriane Howell, which is on the 2023 Stella Prize shortlist. […]
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April 4, 2023
I recently returned from a trip to visit my son in Melbourne and my mum in Tasmania. While in Melbourne, I spent time in the suburb where my son is currently living, and which is also where my great-grandmother was born. What I didn’t know until Mum and I dug a little deeper was […]
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March 4, 2023
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, where we all start with the same book, link it to six other titles and see the varied places we end up. This month’s Six Degrees of Separation begins with Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life by Gail Sheedy, a best-selling self-help title from the 1970s (and doesn’t […]
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February 7, 2023
“I don’t do Valentine’s Day.” Other than hello, this was one of the first things I heard my husband say in conversation. At the time I had no romantic interest in him—I’d known him for all of two weeks, after we’d started teaching at the same school—and we were enjoying after work drinks with colleagues […]
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February 5, 2023
Welcome back to the bookish version of Six Degrees of Separation, where Kate from booksaremyfavouriteandbest provides us with the title of a book, and we all link that to six other titles, depending on the weird and wonderful connections our brains decide to make. This month, the starting book is Trust by Hernan Diaz; it […]
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