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Vision Blogging: Sometimes You’ve Gotta Go Back
The last Vision Writers meeting for the year was today (we have a Christmas party next month, but we don’t critique, we just have fun). Because GenreCon was on a lot of our members were lost to that,...
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NaNoREMo
<– This cutie is why it’s been pretty quiet here on the blog lately. Not to mention I have three short stories under various different levels of ‘upcoming publication’ and my yearly goals to achieve...
View ArticleVision Blogging: BWG Convention Appearance
Today I went to the Brisbane Writers Group Convention as a speaker and over on the Vision Writers site I’ve blogged about the experience.
View ArticleVision Writing Prompt: Unreliable Narrators
Wow, you say. Kirstie’s doing so well with her revision for NaNoReMo that she’s got the time to make and post another cool writing prompt on the Vision Writers Group’s blog. Yes. Yes that’s exactly...
View ArticleVision Writing Prompt: Lost Luggage
I’ve posted another writing prompt over on the Vision Writers Website. Check it out if the holidays haven’t swallowed you alive yet. Writing Prompt: Lost Luggage
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All I Want For Christmas
What do I want for Christmas? I want anyone who has an agenda (be it good or bad in ANYONES view) on parents and children to stop using autism as a scare tactic. Anti-vaxxers have been doing it for...
View Article2015 Rounded Up + 2016 Goals
I knew 2015 wasn’t going to be highly productive, so I set my goals what I thought was accordingly. I clearly had high hopes. The second two trimesters of this pregnancy were even worse than the first...
View ArticleVision Writing Prompt: Technology Twist
Another year another writing prompt on the Vision Writers blog. Writing Prompt: Technology Twist
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Going For Goals – January 2016
Image sourced from Wikimedia Commons In addition to setting my yearly, overarching goals, I’m setting myself monthly goals. Some of these goals I’ve set now, well in advance, and others I will play a...
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The Great Turnaround
Things change. This immutable law of life is well known, but I’m surprised to see not just a change in my life, but a complete 180. In my earlier days of writing, from youth to as recently as when this...
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Going Over
source: Wikimedia commons When I started writing this crazy story(the one I’m calling ‘My Skeleton Romance’ for lack of an actual name at the moment) I thought it would be a novella length, a bit...
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January Goals Round-Up 2016
With three new acceptance letters for short stories received this month it was certainly a good start to the year. I also got a great start to the working with editors goal(#6), since two editors (one...
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Going For Goals – February 2016
January went well, I completed or near-completed all the goals I set for the month(though I didn’t touch my stretch goal), made some great progress on my yearly goals, and received three acceptance...
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Vision Writing Prompt: The Business Plan
‘Sorry About That Dealine’ by Barbara L Hanson (sourced from Flickr) With business plans, branding, and all that jazz on the brain this last couple of months it’s hardly surprising that I managed to...
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Fabruary Goals Round-Up 2016
The goal I probably did the most work on last month was Goal 2 – being a good president to my writers group. Our group is working on an anthology to celebrate its 20th anniversary. I spent a lot of...
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Going For Goals – March 2016
doing a whole lot of this during March Oops! I was so busy actually working on my monthly goals I forgot to share them with you! I found four different anthologies with open submission calls that I...
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Vision Blogging: Don’t Spoil The Surprise!
Like every first Sunday of the month, I went to my writers group today. I’ve written another meeting take-away post on the Vision Writers group blog, after a fun meeting filled with cool new people I...
View ArticleBeautiful Short From Studio Ghibli
Anyone who knows anything about me knows I love Studio Ghibli, and when I’m in a poor mood nothing lifts my spirits like my favourite Ghibli films(Howl’s Moving Castle is a legitimate replacement for...
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Projected Word Length
One thing that ALL of my projects thus far this year have taught me is that I am a severe under-estimator when it comes to setting projected word lengths. If you have any doubts here are my estimates...
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