Rhys Rodgers.

lovelovelove

I wore this to The Spinning Room last night.

I got four kisses from boys.

eight kisses from girls.

Some of them where passionate, with tounge, they lastest for minutes!

Some were with strangers.

Some with people who would have kissed me anyway.

I felt very loved all night.

Kissing all these beautiful people.

Thankyou Melbourne.

Excuse me universe! Am so excited! Just completed the first edition of

‘My Teacup is so deep’ - my sexy sexy zine! yayayay!

Ok. So I recently sent my manuscript back to The Mentor. We have a few more edits to do before we send it off the publishers, but I want to get that thing OUT of my head so I can approach the next edit with a fresh perspective. Anyways, was in search of a new creative project to fill the gap. Have been writing the NEXT BOOK (which is fantastic) AND making this Zine.

Reasons I love Zines:

They are so fast to make. This baby only took me three days to put together, as apposed the the two years I have been writing and re-writing re-writing re-writing the novel! I want to get it photocopied tomorrow! in less than a week from starting, I can be distributing the zine amongst friends! how cool is that? Loves it.

Limited editing. My life has pretty been about editing editing editing lately, and I have to be so anal about it, analyzing every sentence to make sure I use the least words possible, active nouns leading, adverbs sparingly, texture, tone, pace. blah blah blah. For the zine I just raped my computer for snippets, poems, streams of consciousness, whatever. And just threw it in there. Yeah, I edited it. I dont hate my reader. But it was a relaxed sort of editing. If I wasn’t sure about something, i just left it in there. what does it matter? I liked that because it made the language more natural and real. not the super polished fakeness of a novel. a bit gritty. I like that.

Collage! I used drawings and cut up magazines and newspapers! It was as much a visual art project as a word art project. Love that element, visual art stuff has been so absent from my life for…ever.

Love it so much, I would love to incorporate some zineish elements into my next BOOK. espesh the visual element!

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Also. Would like to announce: Am 90% definitely moving to BRISBANE next year. And in January I am doing a super exciting three week circus workshop! Which will be darling! Then I have to find a new job in a new city. Beginnings, love it. independence and freshness… good.