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March 2010
February 2010
- famous last words in the last three days
- some days, you just gotta write off
- the real marvel? no sunburn!
- asking the important questions
- yes, this is how i spend my creative energy - what of it?
- i have since medicated with a generous application of crepes
- the zombie apocalypse: i'm ready
- strange kind of day to discover
January 2010
- back in my day...
- i'm not afraid of a little chemical reset
- public holidays. i'm damn sure we need more of 'em
- shadow bound, the wordle
- awake: not a patch on asleep
- gotta tell you: liking this doing-nothing schtick
- books happen
- i swear, one day, i'm actually going to finish them
- i may be hooked on guarana
- this time, it will be different
- i'm actually craving vegetables now
December 2009
- news from the trenches
- me, a pen, and your books (mark two)
- free book news
- normal schedule hopefully to resume soon(ish)
- true dat
- who puts a christmas party on a thursday, anyway?
- cover me: i'm going in
- this means i need to remember what happened
- wouldn't have it any other way
- just in time for christmas (hopefully)
November 2009
- i don't wonder why i wonder what he thought it would get us
- didn't love the boy too much you just loved the boy too well
- i can't not notice this stuff
- me, a pen, and your books
- for i know not what i do
- never said thank you, never said please
- it is just possible i was, er, not sober...?
- but i kill plants!
- step one you say we need to talk
- before you ask, no, it's not really more fun from the inside
- we are ugly, but we have the music
October 2009
- is it the weekend yet? please?
- why yes, i am indulging in a medicinal bourbon
- when did i turn into holly housewife?
- and i'm not even that good at grammar
- yeah, i got nothin'
- mr jekyll is wrestling hyde
- mad concentration skills, i — ooh! shiny!
- outlining, damselfly-style. (with footnotes.)
- why didn't i think of this before?
- turns out they're not just at the tram stops
- my plan is to go (quietly or not-so-quietly) mad
September 2009
- it's your turn of phrase that gives you away
- we interrupt this blog for a brief melbourne-centric announcement
- saved (not)
- rain down on me
- tell me i'm having a bad dream
- but two miles more and then we rest!
- you had and lost the one thing you kept in a safe place
- are you two sisters? nah, you are, aren't you?
- she packs her hopes and dreams like a refugee
- fuge, dammit
- i'm totally doing that again. stat.
- your grammatical tics, they drive me crazy
- for your consideration, the examiner notes the following...
- jeebus, it's sunday night already?
- what's there to decide? and what's there to say?
- got my fever down
- milo, milk and iron
August 2009
- and so it goes
- next time i'm near a pet store...
- i am getting shameless in the cadging of free rides
- blown away yet?
- a thousand words a day - or you'll never write again
- the atlantic is not a damn girl
- just your typical glamorous day, really
- pain doesn't need words
- moments of stupidity
- look who's had a makeover
- it had to be done
July 2009
- well, that's a new one
- just keep going, dammit
- oh frabjous day!
- everyone needs somewhere to run to
- today i sat in a beanbag for 8 hours (it was the best day evah)
- i will never in my life earn enough
- house of cards
- i can see my future, and there are edits in it
- i hate to say it, but you're perfect together
- i'm going back to the start...
- look at my life, i'm a lot like you were
- simple pleasures should not be underestimated
June 2009
- never one when you need one, though, is there?
- don't leave your lies outside
- mark your calendars
- remember what she does when you're asleep
- the view from the tram
- to be fair, the crepes were excellent
- honest to goodness news
- the writing on the wall, that nobody was there at all
- it's a system built to reward the clockwatchers!
- the rustic wilds
- this totally counts as content
- death not life thine angel now
- yeah, it's been a random week
- For what nation can advance with its tongue torn out?
- Signing Announcement: 27 June 2009
May 2009
- i have been team-built
- every damn morning
- i promise to check more often in future
- stop living so fast already
- felicitous moments
- i've paid my money, i'm here to stay now
- hour upon hour of motivation fail
- in the interests of entertaining you all
- like finding shapes in the clouds
April 2009
- time for a new plan
- INTERNET!
- how difficult is it? really?
- it's good to be
kinga slow loris - but now it's full of evil clowns
- and her fingernails are painted new
- i'm looking for an interruption
- crawling down the alley on your hands and your knees
- i haven't learned the weather patterns here yet
- geography. perhaps it should be part of the syllabus again?
- that's twice now
- i think i'm gonna sing you a lullaby
- i was a quick wet boy diving too deep for coins
- i am downloading like a downloading thing
- i could be doing something productive with my time, you say?
March 2009
- i see dead people
- here i thought the world was spherical
- sometimes alcohol is the best medicine
- in brief
- it never rains but it pours
- adventures in relocation, part the whatever
- i miss being able to download
- help clarion help clarion south
- outed
- you mean i have to come up with a title as well?
- life without hotplates isn't cool
- fiction festival
- living in a hotel would be kinda cool
- junkie ahoy
February 2009
- make a wish
- and i don't trust who i've been
- like a patient etherised upon a table
- at the end of the day
- moving, precious, we does not like it
- it's the end of days
- wrangling code
- new improved edition!
- i'm just no good at blurbs
- this does not bode well
January 2009
- and this isn't even high-density living
- remakes
- the switch, extended
- we are people people
- i swear to you, there are no big words in this book
- this is the part where i start making no sense during a conversation
- i bet i'll give up before it's written
- lions and tigers and bears, oh my
- i sometimes think too much but say nothing at all
- it really is who you know, in the end
- and tomorrow is supposed to be 38
- also, movie tickets cost too much
- you know that second book you promised...?
- nose to the grindstone
December 2008
- this is the bit where the brain starts to splinter
- phrases heard in my house over christmas
- spawn has a kiwi accent
- the switch proves problematic
- macbook!
- i hate rivers commercials
- the leopard approacheth...
- and here i thought slipstreaming was something to do with hoverboards...
- wait, what? i can't keep up with you
- but wasn't it meant to be a competition?
- and to top it off, it's cicada season
- a glimpse of banality
- pc or mac?
- but when can i buy it?
- re-known
- surreal, but 100% true
- free books!
- back again (did you miss me?)
- search terms
November 2008
- brb
- watch out, clarion's about
- i'm pretty sure it's called multi-tasking
- because on a monday, it's allowed
- embracing uncertainty
- lose some, win some
- exercise. i suck at it.
- STOP:0x0000007E
- just when you think the day can't get any worse...
- all of these hours, they will add up to a day
- for the roses were weak and the petals fell away
- you know what your decision is, which is not to decide
- my predictive library refuses to remember deb
October 2008
- one year on
- photos!
- then there are the days you (almost) come out even
- and we're back
- it's the end of the world as we know it
- i can see a lot of life in you
- pondering the deep questions
- could it be...?
- insert witty title here
- colour me boggled
September 2008
- seasons don't fear the reaper
- at least i wasn't in bruges
- choose your own adventure (tess style)
- today
- apropos of nothing
- if i had a tardis, i would've written it by now
- sometimes i find myself alone at night
- music wordle
- He says when you gonna make up your mind
- reality check: normal.
- the road holds great danger
- we're living with the lost and found
- i want to reward you with 5 minutes of uninterrupted eye contact
- cause the dark is everywhere and penny doesn’t seem to care
- ah. yes. sorry 'bout that.
August 2008
- i coulda been someone...
- omgits(notquite)abook
- my family. i get my insanity from somewhere, after all.
- everyone loves a baby puppy
- lower the curtain down on memphis
- who said that every wish would be heard and answered?
- why, yes, it is all about me. isn't it?
- oh call my name. you know my name.
- the lies you tell in liverpool will follow you to spain
- we know the start, we know the end
- simple != easy
- there is vanishingly little point to this story
- cold. very cold. very very cold.
- i (still) can't think of anything
- you've chased the sun around the cote d'azur
- not to be melodramatic or anything
- it's a rich man's world
- i can has internet?
July 2008
- there's a hole in my bucket, dear liza
- ACK
- is it the apocalypse yet...?
- i think it's called murphy's law?
- i've just examined my life and found it wanting
- where's your dunkirk spirit?
- take this sinking boat and point it home
- the mind is full of razors
- just a small town girl
- today
- more doctor? more?
- we got married in a fever
- dreams of ice and wings
- 89.3%
June 2008
- boom de yada!
- 64.6%
- an update in points
- call me back when the war is over, call me back when your boyfriend's gone
- it's your oldest trick and your cheapest one
- and the money i save won't buy my youth again
- today i am homesick for travelling
- save the night for weeping
- not waving, drowning
- poor (zombie) mudpuddle
- the writer ... er, at work?
May 2008
- you can be the mystery that i am over trying to solve
- i've found i'm scared to know i'm always on your mind
- little things i should have said and done
- digging a hole and the walls are caving in
- on the topic of what makes me happy
- apropos of nothing...
- that's what's going to happen
- from here on out it gets tricky
- some days the bear wins
- chased so much and lost my way, maybe a face for every day
- oh. those books
- but the wind goes right through you it's no place for the old
- it's been a long cold lonely winter
- i thought i needed a girl of each kind, one for the body and one for the mind
- I'll tell you all of the things that you'll never forget
- pterodactyls are the least of my confusion
- it's a godawful small affair
- the land of the ... "rolling pin"
- why are you singing?
April 2008
- the burning lake
- send me photographs and souvenirs
- here and now not forever
- home again, home again
- log di jay gey
- everybody panic celebrate!
- you paralysed my mind and for that you suck
- how not to spend your weekend
- i'm going to bhutan!
March 2008
- i've had some time to think about you
- ugh
- I suggest a reading of a Lesson in Tightropes
- i've created a monster
- adelaide, in pictures
- five things, the adelaide version
- adelaide
- i have measured out my life with coffee spoons
- there may still be some gaps in transmission...
- we now return you to your scheduled programming
- the next day mr earbrass is conscious but very little more
- it's not my fault!
- state of the beta draft
- two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
February 2008
- you're going where...?
- ha! i scoff at your fears!
- irrational = me
- write first
- precision. it's important.
- still i push my barrow all the day
- books!
- sorry
- conversations with medicare
- the macrae field
- those who can count, and those who can't
- melbourne: the duration
- melbourne: the arrival
January 2008
- ay to the effin' men
- a random assortment
- i should have been a pair of ragged claws
- the stars look very different today...
- it's spider season
- hold onto nothing as fast as you can
- writers neuroses, eleventy-bajillion and one:
- actually, it kinda fits
- one, two, three and I'm safe
- it's raining, it's pouring
- make it stop
- somewhat belated
- forget jumping in puddles, no more bare feet for me
- i got no time for private consultation...
- no more jumping in puddles for me
- subtle salvation in poems and prose
- 0.0
- are they leather-bound pounds?
- let me 'splain. no, there is too much: let me sum up.
- story love
December 2007
- 'tis the season...
- sshh, don't tell anyone...
- where were you when we took calais?
- i suppose i could call it an interesting day
- there's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day
- five three things make a post
November 2007
- is that a stick in your balustrading...?
- it leads you here, despite your destination...
- it's a deal!
- ground control to major tom...
- he coulda died
- name that book! (please?)
- bad writer. no biscuit.
- doomed, i tell you
- w00t!
- i can has stigmata sunburn!
- and then there were two
October 2007
- today, i am waiting.
- none too bright
- today was a good day
- the land of stuck
- wordy rice!
- when market forces go bad good
- somewhere in the darkness, the gambler, he broke even...
- i wish you would...
- into the woods and outta the woods...
- and darling, we go a-drowning...
- five random things make a post
- on the q-word
September 2007
- this just says it all
- immortalised
- all i have to do is hit quota, after all
- once, in flight school, i was laconic
- focus. yeah, i've heard of that.
- good as a holiday, i'm told
August 2007
- i relent, i repent, the kitteh is supreme
- the joys of the first draft
- i hope my smile can distract you…
- me, i must like it or something
- overheard
- some days, it's harder than others to keep the faith
- if you're looking for an unmarked place…
July 2007
- i'll just be over here…in the sun…sleeping working
- sconus sconus
- cutting to the bone, and the cleaning lady
- looks like i'm doomed
- all my maps will only show me how to lose my way
- random learnings this week
- alone is the last place i want to be
June 2007
- the synapses, they are random
- you tell me
- that's not a storm — this is a storm
- i has intarwebs!
- we need lies to make it through the day
- here away with the view of mountains
May 2007
- on cashing foreign cheques…
- smoke me a kipper — i'll be back for breakfast
- just when you're comfortable, life smacks you in the ear
- wordpress upgrade
- joss on women
- a random assortment
- impulsive? me?
April 2007
- i have no content today
- postscripts
- achoo!
- anguish!
- don't be fooled — it is all about me
- i sense a library trip in my future
- the light, the heat, i am complete
March 2007
- but i don't wanna
- deathmarch
- wanted: beta-readers
- officially "normal"
- i win at failing
- the mri
- the gods of electricity have a point to make…
February 2007
- im in ur lifestyle, making you dependent
- fifty pages of the letter k
- i see my maryanne walking away
- in the wild wild wailing of wind
- psa
- and now for something completely different random
- the cutting room floor
- 2 February 2007
- 1 February 2007
January 2007
- synchronicity, part the… i've lost count
- one day more
- 23 January 2007
- 22 january 2007
- that sound you heard…?
- i take comfort from humour. and truth.
- dream maker, you heart breaker
- 15 January 2007
- helm's deep, with gummy bears
- bad habits part 104(a)
- it's the bitter taste of losing everything i held so dear
- novel. in 90.
December 2006
November 2006
- thursday thirteen songs
- arabian warrior steed!
- ten ways to beat procrastination
- it's all about timing
- because commas count, kids
- um, no
- copyediting
- the daily grind
- friday pitch
- whatever works
October 2006
- houseguests no more
- maybe if i cut down on sleep…
- when to let go
- today i wrote yesterday's words. only different.
- houseguests
- we now return you to your regular lunacy programming
- the people people
- some things never change
- today's goal is to write. anything.
- life ain't easy for a boy named sue
September 2006
- -30-
- dementia inattentiveness, part the first
- let sleeping 'flies lie
- this is not the blog post you're looking for. you can go about your business.
- if you're looking for content, this ain't it
- this nagging suspicion that won't leave me alone tonight
- still here, still writing (um…soon)
- that's it. the universe is out to get me.
- the sad and sorry tale of the satchel-hunt
- this writing is a funny thing, really
August 2006
- who knows what they're plotting?
- dear alarmclock: nolove from me
- trivialities
- panda sneeze
- snippets
- treadputer, day the first
- hanging around, nothing to do but frown
- success
- like wrestling a tar-baby
- brooding
- acceptance, part the second
- never trust a book. they lie.
- it's just a loose connection
July 2006
- quick update
- at long last it's crashed, its colossal mass is broken up into bits
- nice to meet you, rose — run for your life
- mid-afternoon insanity
- but why is the rum gone?
- drink up, me hearties, yo ho
- this aunt business is going to be fun
- past the point of no return
- I don't think I have enough class to handle drinking from a glass
- find a little in you, find a little in me
- cyborgs
- somewhere near, one senses fear
- sometimes, the universe swots your nose
June 2006
- put your money on the table, strain the glass through your teeth
- awww, lookit the baby
- disjointed update
- oh, and i got a haircut
- give F&SF girl germs
- the point where you must choose between what you've lost and what you stand to lose
- technophilic
- scatterbrain
- i already have a plan — i'm waiting for my real life to begin
- that, that and which
- letter from kelly link
May 2006
- articulate datlow
- and it's pushing me aside, see it stretch on forever
- and the angels will weep for you
- sometimes a thing gets broke can't be fixed
- 26 may
- apod
- shiny. let's be bad guys.
- when not to write
- what's your quirk?
- broken vs flawed
- not our fault?
- they've got my email
- driftwood horses
- enough already
- win some, lose some
- there's a reason i love the cold
- it's all about the innuendo
- shoot the moon, and miss completely…
- random observations
March 2006
- what i learned at work today
- the great pompom gutting
- enduring fiction
- about writing
- outta the mouths of babes
- stage 8 or bust
- i got nothing
- where you put your eyes, that's about the size of it
- query letters
- teppanyaki
- your chance to be an agent
- attentiveness or lack thereof
- a note from the backup fairy
- look away, here be kittens
- write first
- happiness
- how do i swear at thee?
- recycling
- growing
- but i have the opposable thumbs
- the tapestry of language
- "they're close to vermin, aren't they?"
- kjitten!
- clarion tutors
February 2006
- today
- thank you
- not my city; theirs
- arachnophobia
- how many? this many
- it's not that i'm lazy
- the cumulative experience
- blinkblink
- random trivia
- freeware zip programs
- friends
- maybe he's from rabbitania?
- clarion south 2007
- The Zen Pen
- not a real girl
- being a writer
- ugh
- not an awake person
- kjitten countdown
January 2006
- rufus
- scribbling in the margins
- it's not (always) about you.
- rhythm and flow
- let go
- 45 sleeps till christmas
- nothing to see here. move along.
- link salad
- slush
- baby animals
- portraiture
- comfort
- tentative cheeping
- the town drunk
- biobleh
- for the love
- workspace
December 2005
- spring-cleaning treasures
- discipline
- random catch-up. i can't promise coherence.
- cute overload
- the land of the toothless
- pre-meds make me cranky
- does lugging gifts count as exercise?
- jittery timeline
- between the lines
- action scenes
- i was gonna watch. it was very exciting.
- it's all about the extra sleep
- difflam is my new best friend
- happy notes
November 2005
- old journals
- things you don't see everyday…
- link salad catch-up
- photos
- deb smiles enigmatically
- setting. voice. fashion & craft
- patience may be a virtue — but not one of mine
- perspective
- link salad
- creepy crawlies, part the second
- fandom & male privilege
- creepy crawlies
- have i mentioned i don't like the train?
- my characters are not great communicators
- advice and curriculum
October 2005
- rainy sunday morning
- unravelling the muses
- ambition
- case closed, mystery solved
- acceptance
- link salad
- transitions
- open source filmmaking
- thingummy
- and i paid for this
- have you heard voices…?
- your face in a crowded place
- home again, home again
- link salad
- sydney!
- six drinks that changed history
- story without a start
- a title at last
September 2005
- beginnings
- flock
- link salad
- SoftPlanner
- i really do harth darth
- technolink salad
- e-caught!
- spaghetti progress
- my kingdom for a title
- tubefed
- unproductive
- handwriting
- prison hotel
- giant crocs
- hanged man
- giant squid
- over-critting
- ant farms
- wish me luck
- mary sue
- name change?
- writer's glug
- bad habits
August 2005
- proofreading
- it's stopped
- Online Identities
- kitten war
- arctic 'fly
- Procrastinating? Moi?
- Freeware
- Buy Me A Pony
- Upington
- They bite, they kill, they… fight disease?
- Possessive Verbs
- Mobile SF
- Pathos
- "I'm not an answering machine—I don't have a message for you!"
- Medicine Bag
- Updated
- I've lost my free card…
- The Post Office shouldn't toy with me like that…
- Browser Wars
- A procrastination of writers…?
- Outsiders
- tessa made me
