Bees having a party on the field of dandelions that have sprung up in our back lawn.
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A photo for the day
Sep 24th, 11
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The bookcase I see directly to my right.
This photo reminds me that I still need to organise my books properly. This shelf has become mostly anthologies and collections, many of which are part of my to-be-read pile/stack/mountain. Books stacked in front are those I have to read for the various book clubs and podcasts I’m keeping up with.
I have talented friends
Sep 22nd, 11
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A moment, snatched
Sep 9th, 11
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Today.
Today I wrote poetry for the first time in well over a decade. The lines are blurred out, because this poem is a gift for someone. It’s simple, but I hope it will be a light.
You will also spot a new pile of Glamourkins that arrived today. I am giving serious thought to using my stash as writing prompts for poetry over the next little while.
Beneath my poetry journal is the printout of the third draft of Ghosts. I won’t be looking at the line edits until Monday, however.
I did also catch up on my slush reading. I need to make a post about reading slush sometime soon. The take home message from today is this: please, please make sure you use correct grammar in your first sentence. I can forgive some grammar wobbliness if I’m immersed in the story, but right at the beginning it often puts me off from reading any further.
I finished reading Remnant Population, which I enjoyed immensely. Next book will be We Have Always Lived in the Castle ahead of the next Writer and the Critic episode. And then I really have to get to some reviewing.
Something old, something new
Sep 6th, 11
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Inspired by the amazing people in my writer’s group, today I purchased a journal expressly to begin to write poetry in again. I used to write a lot of poetry, what feels like an age ago, though I have precious little of it remaining now.
Felled by one of the worst migraines of my life last night. I did write yesterday, only 1,000 words. I was feeling ill already then, my brain already misfiring from the oncoming migraine. No writing today, as my head is in that weird post-migraine state of weirdness. Tomorrow, there shall be writing. Today was mostly lying down the kidlet, watching Skins and reading Firebird when I could concentrate on it.
Annoyingly, it is a lovely springlike day outside, and I would dearly have loved to go for a walk in it. Still, there is tomorrow.
A photo for a Friday: 12th Planet Press books
Jul 29th, 11
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To celebrate Alisa Krasnostein’s nomination for a World Fantasy Award for Twelfth Planet Press (full list of nominees here – special congratulations to Charles Tan and Angela Slatter, too!).
My Twelfth Planet Press books, all in a row. I think this is all of them, my books are in an incomplete state of organisation.
Hanging out with Google Plus
Jul 15th, 11
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I have been very bad about blogging of late. The good news is that I haven’t been blogging much because I have been writing a fair bit and reading a lot.
I have also, as mentioned on Twitter, migrated over to Google Plus. So far, it seems like a decent competitor to Facebook – but with one important addition: Hangouts.
A good friend of mine has started livestreaming her art as she creates it through Hangouts, and I’ve been logging in every time I can to join her there. There’s something about being in the company of artists (even virtually) which makes writing far less lonely. Not that I often mind the loneliness, but it’s just nice to have that companionship.
I even brought my second monitor into my writing area, so I have the space to write and watch webcams at the same time 
It works a treat, even though my desk does now look pretty cramped!
