Intense but kinda loved it. Visuals a d themes for days. Definitely check the CWs if you haven’t done so, there’s some big ones here.
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Intense but kinda loved it. Visuals a d themes for days. Definitely check the CWs if you haven’t done so, there’s some big ones here.
Full disclosure it may be fucked up. I literally have no idea. Proceed with caution/at own discretion
Full disclosure sbs gave me a very firm warning card at the start 😂
Not shown: knitting and wine
Selection screen for Midsommar on a streaming service
About to head into this for the first time having somehow avoided all spoilers except that at some point Florence Pugh ends up covered in flowers. No one tell me otherwise. Will report back in around 2 hours
Honestly embarrassing how much more reading I’m doing since taking my phone out of the bedroom. 30 books this year already! 📚
The House on Rookery Rock. If you like... - dual timelines -storm‑lashed islands -complicated families -slow‑burn mysteries -buried letters + old secrets -women finding their power across generations
Coming soon...
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I did this recently with phone as alarm clock on the nightstand. Reading has exponentially increased, scrolling is way down
I hope you write it gayer
Incredibly late to this party but who cares when you enjoy things as long as you do, right?
Finished Night in the Woods last night and loved the shit out of it. Fully obsessed. Big narrative hangover this morning.
The Aurealis Awards ceremony is taking place THIS SATURDAY as part of GenreCon in Brisbane. With a beautiful venue, and hosted by the always engaging Eugen Bacon, it's shaping up to be a great night, and if you can make it in person, you absolutely won't regret it!
I hope you finally sell that story you love that has racked up a mountain of rejections
QUT will take over famous literary magazine Meanjin, after the journal was closed by Melbourne Uni Publishing last year.
This is a win for all who campaigned to save the masthead, but hardly makes up for the damage done last year www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
Gorgeous cover! Keeping an eye out for this in May
SUSAN O’Malley. My kingdom for an edit button
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
There’s something in this about Virginia Woolf and women’s art and the Sally O’Malley quote I recently found and love about art and dishes. But the important thing to focus on here is that the art is getting done
Two open notebooks, one small and one large both with very messy longhand writing in different ink colours
Writing about fairies at the laundromat (and trying out a new small notebook format)
I like the first one!
I don't know what to tell you. You can't sit at a piano for the first time ever and play a sonata. You can't pick up a tennis racket for the first time and serve a 110MPH Ace.
You have to fuck up.
You have to be able to handle failing.
You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.
Telling myself this tonight (and very grateful earlier today me got some words in!)
When the scene you want to write is second from the end 😭😭😭
We have decided the world needs short fiction clubs instead of just book clubs. All those people who don’t finish a book in time and fumble their way through the meet-up can switch over and live a shame free life. Selfishly I recommend picking your material from a plucky, small press magazine.
Publishing expert @alicektg.bsky.social takes the pulse of Australia's literary festivals & their challenges – cancellations, culture wars, climate change and new hate speech laws – as Adelaide announces Constellations: Not Writers Week. @aunz.theconversation.com
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A simple meme style drawing of a person labelled “me, a writer” standing on a cliff edge labelled “the thousands of words I’ve written so far” looking across a large gap labelled “plot” to the other side labelled “that one scene I’m trying to get to that inspired this whole thing” The image is a screenshot from tumblr attributed to a user named surreality51
I’d like to report a murder
I hope you write through the self doubt
Look at this phenomenal list!!
Three(!) short stories by me and Corey on the shortlist for the Aurelius awards this year and two of them are literally just FROM MY PATREON? (Our story in Interzone also got nominated!) Seriously what is happening. aurealisawards.org So excited. :D
Do one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.
and you may find yourself reading everything you wrote in your notes app at 4am and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful story