I have been saying “Sunflowers are my favorite flower” for years now. Its just one of those things you need to know once you cross over into the world of narcissistic quizzes, along with other essential pieces of information, including but not limited to: “do you prefer day or night?”, “how long has it been [...]
This November is NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month.
Its about stopping the inner critic, mindlessly editing, procrastinating, perfectionistinising and JUST producing. I figured out I should aim to write 1,666.66* words a day so I can have a 50,00 word novel by the end of the month.
I think this is a really great tool to [...]
I don’t know about you, but i spend ALOT of time day dreaming about my future home. I love designing the architecture, imagining the gardens i will plant….sigh. heaven. here are some things i want for my future home:
- I want a loooong drive way lined with big trees.
- I was Jacarandas, Tipuanas, Poincianas, Shizalobiums [...]
This week has been/is a many splendid thing. It was my first day back at uni. It was the week i house/dog sat for friends and it is the last week my sister will have the name Rodgers. (SHE’S GETTING MARRIED TOMORROW!!!)
I have some notes in case any of you have to look after sombody [...]
This afternoon i had a tea party with my brothers Hayden and Amon. We let mum and dad come as well (but they are not very good at tea-partying, although mum tries). Me and my brothers often have tea party’s. We have been having them for years. I suppose i don’t really appreciate how unique [...]
I read a quote that i cant quite remember and don’t know where it came from, but it goes something like: “how paper thin are the walls the divide us, how paper thin”. It fascinates me. Like how a group of people will sit on a bus and refuse to make eye contact or touch [...]
I hate university. I hate hate hate it.
I hate it for TWO reasons.
1) I am studying creative writing. But can anyone ever STUDY creative writing? can creative writing be placed into a linear scale from best to worst? Creative writing is so subjective and i disagree with alot of things being taught. What is the [...]
I submitted the first 5 chapters of Jac and the Wild Children to the Queensland Arts Council Regional New Writers Scholarship 2007. The winner for this year is Adair Jones of Clear Mountain. I did a quick Google search or her and now i dont feel so bad about loosing to her.
At the Queensland Writers [...]
There is something completely depressing about finding a puddle inside your car. Its just so degrading taxiing a collection of water across the sunshine coast. This is the second time i have experienced a “bail me out” worthy puddle of water and i am just coming to terms with the fact that my car is [...]