Sunday Blog 89 – 18th June 2023 Last week was all about celebration – finishing the Emerging Writers Program and farewelling my mentor. Collecting my second prize certificate and winnings. Celebrating with a meal and a toast to creativity. And then, it’s onto the next thing. This week I’ve been putting together an application for …
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My writer’s heart is full
Sunday Blog 88 – 11th June 2023 There are Ideal Days we can visualise, and yesterday would have to be my Perfect Writers Day. A bittersweet ending, an excellent writing course, receiving my prize for the John Gavin Writing Competition and dinner with my daughter and sister to close the day. Bittersweet endings – the …
Taylor’s Well
Sunday Blog 87 – 4th June 2023 This year I have been trying my hand at submitting to writing competitions. Responding to writing prompts leads to fun and innovation. And submissions have been keeping me at the desk, writing, while waiting for feedback on the novella manuscript. When the Writing WA, Night Parrot Press and …
Life
Sunday Blog 86 – 28th May 2023 Last week at our Saturday morning yoga class, we did a lovely flow sequence where we began and ended in a kneeling position. We cycled through a range of mantras such as “I reach with trust”, “I move forward with enthusiasm”, “I open myself up to possibilities”, “I …
“You were robbed”
Sunday Blog 85 – 21st May 2023 Every family has their little sayings. “You were robbed” was something our father would say to us whenever we, say, got 90% in a test. It was always said in jest, and wrapped in a general cocoon of his pride and kindness. Recently and rather impulsively, I decided …
Minds Went Walking
Sunday Blog 84 – 14th May 2023 This is the chapter I would have written for the Minds Went Walking- Paul Kelly’s Songs Re-imagined book if only I had been asked to contribute. Australian singer songwriter Paul Kelly is our Bob Dylan. Our Billy Bragg. Perhaps they sent me an invitation via email and I …
Blame it on the moon
Sunday Blog 83 – 7th May 2023 This week I marinaded in a shame bath. Monday morning started too early, 4am to be exact. I was glued to the memoir manuscript a dear talented friend had sent me to read after I had begged her. I was following along her teenage travels, heart in mouth. …
Two very heavy suitcases
Sunday Blog 82 – 30th April 2023 Between deciding to go and leaving, there was a two week period. I packed two very heavy suitcases for that brief trip to the UK to “lift my spirits”. It had been a long eight months, and after Summer had waned I’d endured Winter in snowy Thessaloniki in …
The Glass Window
Sunday Blog 81 – 23rd April 2023 For something a little bit different I thought I might share some of the rejected submissions I have been doing, adapting them to the Sunday Blog platform. Gets them out into the world somehow! “I think I’m done,” she said. Until that moment, she was my boss. She …
It’s all Greek…
Sunday Blog 80 – 16th April 2023 I still remember when I was just about to leave London for Greece in 1996. So lucky to get a five year contract at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in 1990, I had seen that out and had started on the next. But something wasn’t right. I …