I knew I wanted to write about a girl in a caravan. One of those round-looking ones that are so ridiculously cute they just cry out to be the setting of a short story. But there was a problem:
I knew nothing about caravans.
The story I was writing was for the Newcastle Herald short story competition late last year. I had the bare bones in my head, but I needed to add the setting. And that setting needed to be a caravan, preferably in a pastel colour, and it needed to ooze with history.
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How quickly do you write?
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This is my February 2014 contribution to ABC Open 500 words (topic: PERSONAL CHALLENGE). I talk about my personal goal to write a blog piece every fortnight and submit to ABC Open every month in 2014.
Here’s the link:
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Kindness from strangers can turn up in all places – including on a chilly autumn morning in New York.
Here’s the link:
ABC Open 500 words project: The kindness of strangers
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I’ve always had the habit of giving people gifts that I would like to receive myself. But is that always a bad thing? In the case of the bright blue ukulele: apparently, yes.
Here’s the link:
ABC Open 500 words project: Failure
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On becoming a mum.
This ABC Open 500 words piece describes what it’s like to go from career woman to mother overnight (and how now I couldn’t imagine life any other way).
ABC Open 500 words project: On the job
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This is my first post as a Guest Blogger for ABC Open
Type ‘being a writer is…’ into a Google search and it suggests the following top searches:
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Now, that’s certainly a depressing Google search! But is loneliness something that all writers have to suffer?
Read my Guest Blogger piece on ABC Open for my top 5 tips on how to turn writing into less of solitary hobby and more of something enjoyable you can share with others – and you’ll find that the quality of your writing will improve at the same time.
https://open.abc.net.au/posts/being-a-writer-is-lonely-5-ways-to-change-this-72wy2ez
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ABC Open 500 words – ‘The things we do for love’
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July 2013
When the preparation for a medical test is almost unbearable
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Experiencing the locals in America’s mid-West
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June 2013
A task as simple as paying for petrol introduces me to a bunch of characters I never expected to meet.
A post about an experience during our 2010 trip across the USA.
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A quiet night on Bourbon Street
June 2013
Just when I thought I’d have an uneventful night in New Orleans…
This piece describes my New Orleans experience while we were travelling around the USA in 2010.
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Quiet please: rebellion in progress
May 2013
How tattoos, beer and loud music got me into University.
This piece was one of three on the ‘featured’ list for May 2013 (out of 98 contributions). It is a light-hearted piece describing my last year of high school and how I rebelled from my parents.
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Autism in Nicks words
A (very) average lawyer's musings on the Australian legal profession. With occasional pug pictures.
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independent, candid and frugal
Blogs about writing and other bits and pieces
Writer. Mother. Editor. Geek. In no particular order.
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This is a flash fiction site where you finish the story!
"Cats, Twitter, Coors Light, & Everything In Between"
Poetry, Fiction, & Non-Fiction Writings
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Growing older is inevitable. Growing up is optional.
Observing the world, taking mental notes and writing fiction
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