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Black cloud days and finding nemo

9/2/2020

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Sometimes it's hard to 'just keep swimming' like Dory did. Wandering around the apartment feeling sorry for myself, with my head full of ideas that just won't seem to un-jumble themselves, life feels like it's not moving forward. That it's stuck. That I'm stuck. I'm a writer who's never been published. Some critiques have been amazing and made me feel that contract is sooo close, while others have truly sucked and made me want to crawl under the bed covers and never come out again! Looking out my apartment window here in Vietnam, reminds me just how fortunate I am and that I need to stop and smell the frangipanis! It doesn't matter that I'm not published. It doesn't matter that some like my stories while others don't. The thing that matters is that I write. So that's what I did just now. I wrote. And it helped me to not be stuck anymore.
Do you ever feel like that? Do you ever have 'black cloud days'? What do you do to become 'unstuck'?

You can read today's thoughts, aptly titled 'Stuck', by following this LINK.
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story scoop is here!

8/1/2020

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A fantastic new initiative by CBCA NSW and SCBWI Australia and New Zealand. Each month our fabulous Aussie and Kiwi authors and illustrators will give us an insight into the inspiration behind their books and creative choices. A great resource for any who loves books! Click here to access Episode 1 with Deb Abela and Marjorie Crosby-Fairall, Victoria Mackinlay and Katrina McKelvey. Follow CBCA NSW on their Facebook page for the next episodes.
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Ninh van bay, vietnam.

7/9/2020

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Although I can't get home right now because of COVID-19, I'm in a beautiful place by the ocean, on holiday, and safe, which is definitely something to be thankful for. I love the ocean. Our home in Australia is a 5 minute walk from two stunning beaches and we can hear the waves as we go to sleep at night. So being able to relax looking out over the turquoise waters of Ninh Van Bay, with a light sea breeze cooling me as a write, is a pretty good alternative! And the setting is definitely inspirational. Having to do a 'staycation' in Vietnam has it's perks! So I've been writing like crazy in between ocean swims and have added a new poem to my poetry page. Not one about calm, gentle seas rather the opposite. It's about the storms that gather out to sea on my beaches back home. You can read it here. 
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