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On knitting and urgency
It's been a while. How are you all? I hope your celebrations and New Year have been beautiful, filled with the things you love. Possibly even with a tiny bit of time squeezed in somewhere for writing! For my part: life has moved apace for me and the community I live...
Why write at all? (and the 3 things writers forget)
If you're some way into your writing - either your career or your book - then you'll most likely have thought this at some point: Why write at all? It's one of those thoughts that comes after you find yourself thinking, "I seem to only be writing drivel today." Next...
When fear is the bridge
Fear is a big one for writers. There. I've said it. (Not that you didn't know already) You know how it is: you write, and you write, and you write... by yourself, for yourself and your own enjoyment, and that's all fine, good and comfortable. Hooray! Then. You think...
The ‘ability’ in accountability
I've been thinking a lot about accountability lately. It's something that we love to hate. (and if you've not got a heap of time, please click here and tell me how you like your accountability to look. Thanks!) We need it, but wish we didn't. We feel great when we...
…the burlesque of inspiration
If you're blogging, you'll know this already: keeping readers interested is like a sustained burlesque striptease. Reveal a bit, hide behind a fan. Reveal some more, shimmy! I'm an ex-dancer (not like an ex-parrot though), but I was never any good at the sustained,...
Are you a Proper Writer? (Part II)
Last week I was talking about what you think a Proper Writer does. Who they are, what they do, how they live, and especially, what characteristics make them a Writer. Inside everyone who writes there lives a Stereotypical Writer, and that's who we were defining with...
Are you a Proper Writer?
If you're finding writing really hard right now, you might want to think about this: What is your idea of a 'proper,' Capital-W Writer? Because if your expectations of who a Writer is and how they behave differs significantly from who you are and how you behave, then...
The different sides of stuck
You know how I like to talk about 'stuck'? Well I'm going to be doing it again today. Feel free to go and potter amongst other posts if you've never felt the particular horror of your hands paralysed on your keyboard, brain in a total fog... I think I have something...
Timelines, deadlines and kindness
So! You're writing and that's great. You even have a date you want to finish by. A deadline! But. What happens when you stop? Have you ever had your writing gradually peter out over the course of a week, or maybe two, leaving you to feel like inspiration has run down...
Meet the Resistance!
Hello there! Today I'm posting about meeting your Resistance - that pesky wall you have that feels like an electric fence buzzing away inside you. There are many, many ways of understanding resistance, but I've found that most of them lead me to having more, not less,...
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I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation who are the traditional and ongoing custodians of the land on which I live and work.Â
I pay my respects to their elders: past, present and emerging, and I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. Â