It’s not often that I feel calm. I have supernovas going off in my head, squirmy things in my muscles and fingertips. I’m sore all the time because I exercise so much. It’s one of the only ways to expend the energy, wear me down, expend the effort effort effort. And I love the zing [...]
Category Archives: Self-indulgence
LiteraryMinded turns two
May 9, 2009 – 9:24 am
Happy 2nd birthday to LiteraryMinded!
Two years! I was going to link to the very first review but to tell you the truth I find it clumsy, and my writing a little too presumptuous and bold. But this is a good thing because the cringe shows I have come quite a ways since that virgin blog [...]
So what’s happening with Smoke & Dancing?
April 10, 2009 – 5:28 pm
I have been asked a few times lately what’s happening with this novel manuscript, as people know I’m also working on a new one. Well lit-lovelies, here’s the juice.
I’m restructuring, rewriting, adding, subtracting, overhauling Smoke & Dancing this long weekend.
This is the story so far, in point form (because my brain is mush after the first day’s work!)
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I might be related to Stephenie Meyer
January 16, 2009 – 7:50 am
I keep seeing my name around lately. One thing I’m glad of is that Stephenie pronounces it the same way as me. Not Mayer, but Mier. I haven’t read the books yet. Maybe I will someday. I don’t mind the odd bit of Undead sexual tension here and there. Sure, hype can often be a turn-off. [...]
A LiteraryMinded New Year’s Resolution
December 31, 2008 – 6:30 pm
I do make New year’s resolutions. Last year I vowed to travel to Europe and move to Melbourne. Although these things were planned in November and December, I resolved to follow them through, and I did. The year before I resolved to write more, and 2007 was when I wrote Smoke & Dancing. It can [...]
The Boy Detective Fails – Joe Meno – a ‘Mood’ Review
December 9, 2008 – 7:44 am
Punk Planet Books, 9781933354101, 2006
razor. pillow-kiss. mental patients.
interior snowflakes. haunted house memory. failed masked-man.
essentially bad or essentially good?
the horror of a discovery. pills, lots of them. lonely echoing voices down the phone. vaporized individuals. an office. graveyard shift. mystery.
solved/unsolved. missing her. stealing pink. childhood gone.
fat boy.
bald boy.
a lone ant.
not speaking. firecracker messages. woods. dead bird. [...]
Story To… and Random Stuff
November 20, 2008 – 7:57 am
I have a wee poem ‘Tinsel Dreams (Tram Moment 1)’ in the new Story To… zine, which is available in print and as a FREEBIE online. Click on Issue 2: Pod People here.
Note that I wrote this poem after going to Varuna. There is a bit of stream-of-consciousness thought ramblings about mentor Peter Bishop, and [...]
A Week in the Life of Miss LiteraryMinded
November 9, 2008 – 7:24 pm
Mon 3 Nov – blog posted Sudeep’s pics before work. Rode bike to work (environmentally friendly). Quiet office on the day before Melbourne Cup. Sweat at the gym after! Finished reading Ian Rankin’s Doors Open (will review at some stage). Jumped on the email and there was lots of great feedback from Nam Le blog post. Flatmate’s [...]
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I wanted to marry Michael Jackson
<– Little Ange with my first love on the wall.
The first short story I ever wrote, and read aloud, was called ‘Michael Jackson and the Magic Hat’. I was in Year 3. Besides the magic hat, there was mystery, romance and intrigue. My best friends in Year 3 – Genna and Rebecca – both messaged me [...]