by Mel | Dec 28, 2009 | Life
Blogger tells me this is my 600th post so I thought I’d do a end of decade retrospective (given that I generally do my year of books wrap up post on New Years Eve). It’s hard to believe that it’s the end of the decade (and yes, I know, technically...
by Mel | Dec 5, 2009 | Writing
Finishing a book does strange things to your brain. I tend to write the ends of books fast and prefer, where possible, to revise fairly fast too (though there are multiple passes at this). For the first draft the endgame speed comes from the part where I finally see...
by Mel | Nov 14, 2009 | Life
2009 has been a year of feeling like there are too many balls in the air and not many of them staying up there very long. Writing has been up and down but seems to be smoothing out again (knock wood, cross fingers). Crafting has been mostly up which is good but kind...
by Mel | Jul 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
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by Mel | Jul 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ve been up in Bendigo for two days at the Wool and Sheep show to hang out with my sil and inevitably buy yarn (but will save the yarn talk for the craft blog). I haven’t been to Bendigo in I do not know how long and it is a very pretty place (though OMG...