What’s life without a little risk? Or in my case a whole truck load of it. Risk seems to have become a theme in 2019 for me. Honestly, it’s been a long time coming. I’ve owed myself a lot of chances, I’ve missed a lot of opportunities and had to live with regrets. But not [...]
Tag: Writing
2019, a foreword
It’s that time of year again. A beginning, but for many people a chance to reflect on the year that was. For me, 2018 was not an easy year. But rather than dwell on the hurt, I choose to move into the new year grateful for the lessons and the happiness that came toward the [...]
Realism
I’ve done it. I’ve finally accepted this thing known as ‘adulthood’. I’ve taken a deep breath of reality, and decided I can’t keep surviving off the great perhaps. Perhaps, one day I’ll get my book published. Perhaps, one day I’ll be a successful author. Perhaps, one day I’ll have enough money to afford an avocado… [...]
It’s never too late to start again… or is it?
It’s that age old tale. The spoon they feed you whenever you’re down in the dumps feeling like life can only get further down the gurgler from here. A metaphorical clean state designed to give you the freedom to build whatever floats your row boat… Or in my case, gives you crippling anxiety because All. [...]
Redefining Success
When I decided to write my manuscript fulltime I had a very different idea about what would define success to the opinion I have now. By the end of 2015 I had finished my first draft. The next eight months were spent editing, getting feedback from readers and other writers, having my manuscript professionally appraised, [...]
Writing Genius (n.) – a person who can sit in front of a computer screen or empty notebook and words flow from their fingertips in the perfect order to create an entire world from nothing. Usually experiences prolonged feelings of insanity, in which they may find themselves believing they are some kind of God or [...]
Sydney Writers’ Festival ’17
I attended my first Sydney Writer’s Festival in 2014. That was the year my writing journey really began. It was because of my time at that festival that I began to believe my dream of becoming an author could become reality. I was desperate to return the following two years, but unfortunately things didn’t go [...]
Against all odds
I think we all have days like that. Where the thought of writing fills our soul with dread. The idea of others reading the words in our heads is scarier than any monster under the bed. We want to shrink away. Be small and hide. Even if the words are burning inside. No matter how [...]
Life
Remember all the talk at the end of last year about how 2017 would be different? All the changes that would happen, some for the better, some for the worse, but a global acknowledgement that no matter what it wasn’t the end. For me 2017 sure has been different. I’m still trying to decide if [...]
Boats
Recently I lost a friend but that isn’t the focus of this post. (I hope one day it is something I am able to write about but as of now the reality is too raw to begin to find words for.) I want to write about the way the world stops. Everything you believed right [...]
