Cake!
Happy Birthday to the VT! Long may she reign in sappiness and VT spookiness. Let there be cake. If only to distract me from the fact that her being a year older means soon I shall suffer the same fate!
Weekend!
Hooray for the nine day fortnight! I have been sleepy all week and at least the day job is done with. The writing job continues at a frantic pace. It's very weird to be 200 odd pages into a book and know there's almost that much to go. Normally I'm getting ready to...
Full steam ahead
So the book is going well, I'm averaging ten pages a day which is a lot and fantastic and a pace I hope to continue even though I know it will ease up eventually. I'm not sure how long this sucker will be but I'm telling myself 90k, page count (mainly to avoid...
Vale, Steve
You know, I was never a huge fan of the Crocodile Hunter as a show but Steve Irwin was 100% full-bore, flat out passionate about what he did. About saving our animals and our environment and teaching people to respect the planet. He donated huge sums of money and huge...
Write-us interruptus
So, I woke up on Saturday with the book shouting in my head. 7.30am. I'm never up at 7.30 am on a Saturday. But when the book is on a roll you don't argue. I'd managed 10 pages the day before, which is a lot for a work day but this felt different. This felt like I...
Bye bye winter
Ah spring. Season of warm days, rain and birthdays. You're almost here. In fact, today in Melbourne, winter decided to give up and give in to Spring early. Which didn't make it easy to stay inside and work, even if they did bribe us with Krispy Kremes (of which I...
Breathe
As I may have mentioned before, the combination of virgo brain and writing is not always a good one. Sometimes the aforesaid virgo brain seems specifically designed to torture the writer bit. Like today. Today is one week after I sent my manuscript off. Mail from here...
Musings
Sunday again. The book is done and in the mail...so now we wait. The new book is so far playing nicely. Except I was writing after work on Friday while waiting to go and see the ridiculously gorgeous and talented Hugh in the Boy from Oz and the scene was whizzing...
Possibilities
> The blossoms on my tree say Spring is coming. My favourite time of year. Everything fresh and new. Anything possible. Maybe I'm all inspired from conference, but my book is just about done after a solid day's work. One final check tomorrow and it will be in the...
PS
Just 'cos I couldn't resist...the orange cat, whose expression most eloquently expresses his opinion of stupid collars, butt surgery and me going away : )
