A Plug for the Booklength Project Group
I was just going to reblog a post I wrote on ‘Coping With Negative Feedback On Your Writing’ for the Booklength Project Group (BLPG), but then I thought I might as well give a plug for the group, which I convene. We meet at Mattie’s House, part...
Midweek Moment #36
I’ve been experimenting with slow shutter speeds this week. The results haven’t always worked, but I think I’m improving. Yesterday was wet and dull, but as the sun went down, the clouds parted enough for me to take this photo: However, I thought I...
Midweek Moment #35
Last Friday was the opening of my friend, Mia Laing’s, art exhibition. She’s exhibiting her paintings along with two other artists, Jan Brown and Alicia Gorey. Mia and I did a parenting course together when our eldest children were in early primary school. We...
Rewrite is Done!
I finished rewriting my novel last week. The elation and relief! I looked back over my blog posts and saw that I’d started rewriting it in early June last year, so it took me nearly nine months to complete. I won’t reiterate how hard I found it at times...
Midweek Moment #34
For a change, we’ve gone black and white this week: My photo is of a water droplet on a twig during the rain on Easter Saturday. I’ve turned it into black and white, but there was very little colour in the original anyway, being mainly greys and blacks with the...
Midweek Moment #33
I have only about 3,600 words of my manuscript left to rewrite, so that’s been my primary focus this week. Consequently, I’ve barely left the house—if you don’t count walking the dogs, taking the kids to-and-from school, meeting writerly friends for...
My Week: Story and Sculptures
I’ve interrupted the novel rewrite to show you this: That’s how many pages I have left to edit. It’s a thin stack, isn’t it? Only 25 pages thick. Twenty-five. That. Is. All. I’m a slow writer, and it’s given me a boost to see...
Midweek Moment #32
I’ve been working hard on my novel for the past couple of weeks, so I was going to use one of last week’s photos for our MM. However, today I felt the urge to step away from the computer and take a long walk with my canines and camera. It’s never easy lugging a...
Midweek Moment #31
Just as dawn was breaking yesterday morning, I went down to Sculptures by the Sea at Cottesloe Beach. With the ocean as smooth as glass and the previous day’s footsteps in the sand having been swept away, the beach was as tranquil as I’d ever seen it. However,...
Words I Needed to Write
I’ve spent much of this week reading Cardinal Pell’s testimony at the Royal Commission. I wasn’t going to write about it, but it’s taken over my thoughts, and I want to show support for the survivors, who’ve shown courage and resilience...