June 2018 Update: Blogs, Priorities, Art, and Dysfunctional Relationships

I don’t want to start this post in a cliché way, but I will have to: the fact is, I’m genuinely surprised that a whole six months has passed since I last blogged on here. I know I say that a lot. I really don’t follow the first blogging commandment, “Thou shalt post with regularity.” …

2017 in review: Music adventures

I am a bit of a frustrated musician who never fully lost her dreams of rock star glory, so it goes without saying that I listen to a lot of music. My favourite genres are heavy metal and classical. As far as metal goes, the styles I most like include folk, melodic death, prog, black …

2017 Book Reading Challenge: End of Year Summary

In late 2016, faced with an ever-expanding pile of to-be-read books, and an evolving, ever-shifting pile of library books - that often spent their allotted 9 weeks maximum lending time with me languishing in the library book box before being returned barely read – I decided that I couldn’t bear the strange cognitive dissonance of …

NaNoWriMo 2017 Journal: Day 23

Current word count: 26,744 / 50,000 words. Today's soundtrack: a mix of 1990s alternative rock, Australian rock, and 2010s folk metal. Step one: write lengthy day 23 journal. So lengthy you end up not working on your NaNoWriMo story.  Step two: lose the unsaved file in which you wrote the journal. Rookie mistake. In short, …

NaNoWriMo Journal 2017: Day 9

Current word count: 10,033 / 50,000 words. Soundtrack: A whole lot of birds singing their spring songs in the garden.   It’s like someone flicked a switch in my nose and it’s running like a tap. I know, gross, but seriously. I am so sick and tired of getting sick and tired. I wanted to …