Next week I’m off to Hobart (in Tasmania) for the national Romance Writers of Australia conference. It’s pretty cold down there (hopefully I’ll see snow topped mountains), but it’s usually not as cold as home in Canberra. At least I have all the warm weather gear I will need, especially as I am not staying…
Writing
Travel post-covid
I feel like all I have done since March 2020 is cancel travel plans, reschedule, only to cancel again. It’s no surprise that the anticipation of upcoming travel has lost its thrill – I certainly don’t expect travel to happen until I am well enroute. It’s no surprise I felt the same way about making…
New writing year starts
For a long time, I have considered September to be the start of my writing year. I reset my writing goals, set a plan for what I want to achieve each month (this is specifically for my manuscript) and a general list of other things I want to achieve (these are writing related). The reason…
A spring renewal
As spring is the time of year for new life, it seems the perfect time of year to kickstart my blog and give it life again. I have a bit of a plan moving forward (as you will have noticed my attempt at an ad hoc approach didn’t really work), so hopefully things will be…
Writing Away
Life has been as busy as ever so my poor neglected blog is still suffering. I think I will create a list of topics – I found I was much better when I had specific things to talk about. In 2 days I fly across the country to the annual Romance Writers of Australia (RWA)…