Sharing with the partner/spouse

Two nights ago, hubby was reading over my shoulder as I tried to write…. he was like ‘Lissa huh?’
And I said ‘What are you doing!!! You don’t read, why are you reading? You’ve never shown an interest, why now?’ Thinking, of all the times to start reading my writing, why a first draft, as I [...]

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Yesterdays post – Getting stuff done

First up, I just want to say Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby (not so baby) girl, she’s one today – where has the year gone?? She is absolutely the coolest baby in the world, and I’m allowed to say that because Ivy didn’t become my daughter until she was one and a couple weeks, [...]

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Back on track

I’m feeling much much better as of yesterday afternoon – perhaps I had some kind of bug or something cause I’m not as exhausted and I can think straight again, despite less sleep. Go figure! I did manage to get cracking into some planning and am actually beginning to feel a little bit of excitement [...]

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Take a deep breath

This month seems to have been one long stretch of anxiety for me. Not over the top, though I can feel it now, in my chest, like spiders roaming, scratching me with their little legs, threatening to crawl up my throat and force their way out my mouth and nose.
It’s Lauren’s 1st birthday party on [...]

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Slacking off

I confess, I am totally slacking off – not pushing myself, not trying to find more hours in the day, not even feeling guilty about it. I’m getting through my one chapter a day of crits and doing nothing of my own – I think it’s been four days since I finished reading my novella [...]

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The blog post that couldn’t

I started writing a post on Saturday morning…. but, then we did the grout on the tiles, and Mum helped me paint the dining room/back porch area and I never had a chance to get back to it. Sunday rolled around and there was more painting and a morning long catch up with my friends [...]

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The renovations are taking over!

So, I know that the kitchen is almost done… almost, so close to having everything up and running. But more things just keep cropping up and that list of house stuff I want done before Lauren’s 1st birthday seems to be growing, not getting smaller. It’s all consuming. Paint this, clean that, get rid of this, [...]

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This months plan

After looking through my options, I was feeling a little lost. I’ve got about 6 short stories that need their first draft finished, and a bunch more that need rewriting and editing. I don’t even want to think about the list of ideas for new stories that I have lying around – they are just [...]

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5 days left of the month!

Oh man, where has the time gone? I feel like this last year has shot by so fast with all the different things happening in my life. It’s certainly been jam packed, and doesn’t sound like its going to slow down any time soon either.
We had a difficult sleep patch yesterday which meant that in [...]

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First draft of synopsis done

Woo! I almost sat down to write a post about procrastination yesterday, because I was putting off getting to work – but then I decided that I would do better just to get stuck into it!
The second half was a lot easier to write than the first, I’d made much better notes so it was [...]

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