About a minute ago I was happily listening to episode 103 of Australia Writers’ Centre podcast “So You Want To Be a Writer”. Co-host Allison Tait spoke about an email she, and her other co-host Valerie Khoo, had received from a listener about vanity publisher Write4Fun. The name instantly pinged in my mind because back in 2012, in…… Continue reading I Didn’t Realise I’d Been Caught By a Vanity Publisher
Hey everyone, As you probably know if you’re a regular viewer, I’m not a consistent blog poster. I’d like to be, and that’s where this post comes in. It’s NOT a New Year’s resolution, but more of a commitment to my writing career. With social media I can be a bit “floopy”. I can follow…… Continue reading I’m Here For a Chat
Goodreads told me I read 11,805 pages in 2016. It works out to be 32 pages per day, which was my guess. I’m going to base this year’s list off 30 pages a day, 15 pages for the big books. If I finish more books, great, but if not that’s okay. I’ve participated in Goodreads…… Continue reading My 2017 Reading List
Contrary to my last post about my NaNoEdMo schedule, I have been ridiculously lazy for the majority of November. I blame the release of a new Pokemon game. Although Sun and Moon came out towards the end of the month, I wanted to try and finish the previous game before it was released. I wasn’t…… Continue reading Renewed Focus
Instead of writing a novel during National Novel Writing Month, I’m going to put my own spin on it and call my November: National Novel Editing Month. In a previous post I wrote about how I wasn’t going to participate in NaNo this year because although I have an idea for a novel, I have two needing…… Continue reading My “NaNoEdiMo” Schedule
I don’t understand why things like this are happening. I’ve just had the worst social media night ever. My Facebook feed is generally okay. I get into occasional debates about racism and human rights. But tonight was awful. I saw a post from Nine news, about cops arresting a 19 year old man for dressing…… Continue reading I feel so upset with the world right now
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