So, I had a thought. And because this year, I’m using a kanban board to organise myself, I wrote a postit note of said thought, and stuck it on my kanban board. It said this: “Read CBCA Longlist”. And because it was on my kanban board, I started doing it. …
In which my smugness from last week is a little on the embarassing side… So, remember last week? I was a little gung ho? Wanna get stuff done? Just write it on the internet? I have the answer to everything. Aren’t I smart? Blah, blah, blah. This week’s post is …
So, here’s an idea. If you want to do something, tell people you’re going to do it. I hear this all the time. Accountability. And yeah, that totally works. But what if you’re too shy to tell people your dreams? Or don’t think anyone will care enough to keep you …
In which I realised my writing habits are NOT good. Let me tell you a little story… about a girl who wrote a picture book every week for the past 2 years. About a girl who had to write to keep up. Who literally had to sneak a word into …
Winter sports are back! Which means lots of sidelines for me. The rules of winter sport: – I ALWAYS, ALWAYS watch games my kids are playing in. – Training and warmups are fair game. So here goes… First up, the couch on a Sunday evening. And then Monday morning, I …
Easter, Bluesfest, Anzac Day, foiled attempts at theme parks, and pure laziness = no writing. Here’s where I didn’t write for the last little bit. I did not write while I was at Bluesfest, eating my favourite Yemen festival food, dancing with Baker Boy, catching Ty from Vintage Trouble (literally …
You know those weeks where your normal routines are thrown out the window? Those weeks that seem to stretch on forever? I just had me one of them. I even had to check the dates on my photos to make sure I wasn’t cheating, I wrote on the train… …on …
Embed from Getty Images I was with the young people last night. Imposter-ing with the best of them. Mesmerised like everyone else by Montaigne at the Corner Hotel. My heart sang (not my actual voice because tone deaf man!), I shuffled around a little and then she practically made us …
This episode of where I wrote is coming live to you from the chiropractor’s waiting room. It’s all a little bit meta really isn’t it? So, this week, there were a lot of places I didn’t write, where I normally would. I didn’t write in the car on the way …
So, I may have mentioned I like a challenge. This year, the big writing challenge is to accumulate 50 rejections. Which means between Feb and November, submitting 5 things every month. Which meant, I submitted 5 things on Sunday 31st March, to meet my March deadline. I’m a last minute …
OK. This Wednesday thing has worked. Once. Beginnings of a habit right? I may have mentioned a few billion times that I’ve been doing a 52 week picture book challenge. The challenge finished up a few weeks ago, and I owed about 6 manuscripts. As of writing, today, I owe …
ON THURSDAY! Ooooops! Dear Teacher, I’m sorry that I forgot to do my Where I Wrote Wednesday on Wednesday. I was fasting for a capsule endoscopy and completely forgot it was Wednesday. I promise I will do better next week. The cockatiel ate my homework? Yeah, OK I forgot. I …
See what I did here? I’ve just turned my blog post into a weekly activity. Non-negotiable. One little word – Wednesday. Well, that’s the theory anyway. So where did I write this week? Short answer… everywhere and nowhere. I had the double joy of a colonoscopy and gastroscopy booked in. …
I love a challenge. Last year, I ran 1000km. I put the goal in runkeeper, I told a few people what I was doing, and then I ran 20km every week (mostly), until on 30 December, I hit 1000.1km. The year before that, I ran a marathon. I don’t even …
OK OK! So, I said I’d blog daily in November. We’re at day 15, and this is my 4th blog post. This has not gone well. However, I have been doing the other things. I’ve been writing, and running. And sleeping and reading and listening to audio books and catching …
Herewith is a list of stuff I got done today: Pulled apart two pieces of hard rubbish furniture and repainted them. Mr 10 helped, which made it much more fun. The items are: A full length mirror with a door that opens for jewellery storage. And one of those funky …
Today I had a great idea. I shall blog about NaNoWriMo. I shall do this daily. NaNoWriMo shall give me plenty to write about. Blogging daily shall set up good habits. Great that I’m starting on day 2. Not day 1. Anyway. I’m a sucker for challenges. I need …
You may have heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Authors everywhere sign up to write their 50,000 word novels in the month of November, by writing and tracking about 1600 words per day. Inspiring stuff. So inspiring, that I thought I’d join in. But I’m not writing a novel. …
Up high Most mornings, on the way home from my morning run, I run past a man I don’t know. He’s smoking on the footpath on the main road that runs through our burb. He sees me coming (slowly). I see that he sees me (little inward grin and I …
So, I went to Byron Bay. For a music festival, with my 12 year old. And I came back with a bung eye. I don’t know what happened. But now my eye is bloodshot and freaky looking. After a week, I figured I should go see a doctor. This thought …
