You know, when people tell you that pain and grief will eventually fade, you never believe them.

But then a year sneaks by... then two.... then five... and suddenly that awful, cuttingly sharp edge is gone and you are left with a persistent bitter-sweet ache in your heart...

And the wounds that couldn't or wouldn't heal - well you learn to live ( Read more... )

Sleepy Aussie, your pirate name is
Charlotte the Horny

What is YOUR pirate name?

Ah huh.

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I stuffed it up and can't be bothered to fix it. Maybe later. Too tired now.

So. A problem.

This week I re-worked an old Scene of Anna's. One where she is beaten the nasty one of her brothers and saved by another brother... the writing itself is okay, I think. The scene carries the story, although it might be a bit a abrupt - I will go back and check in a couple of weeks...

The trouble comes in that I have no experience in ( Read more... )

Sleepy Aussie --
[adjective]:

Fuzzy to the touch

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com


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Well holy crap!

This is amazing!
I googled 'Lygers' and 'Ligers' because I was curious - a fellow member of SotD board goes by the id of Lyger and a comment was made some time ago about these cats.

Here's a link to a zoo site if you want more info ( www.sierrasafarizoo.com/animals/liger.htm ) but basically, ligers are a cross-breeding of lions and ( Read more... )

I've finally fixed up my info page.... if you can call deleting most of what was on there 'fixed up' lol. It was all waffling anyway.

I've been mulling over the male character for the book I intend to do next. Figuring out what kind of guy he is and making him more than a cardboard-cut-out character.

All I had before was that he's a humorous, happy ( Read more... )

I've been staying with Kath and Imoh for four days now and on one hand I don't want to go, because who knows when I'll see them next? but at the same time I need to get home to my computer because I must write...
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I survived my cousins' double wedding. Or more to the point, I survived the reception! lol

The drive there and back was... interesting. Thankfully the trip there was broken up by a stop in Brisbane (smooches to Imoh and Kath).

All in all, the weekend was pretty good.
Mum, Dad and myself were in a flat on the tenth floor of a spiffy resort in Surfers ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday aprox. 7:30am : Knocking on door woke me up. I staggered out of bed in time to see Lua get to the door, talk briefly to who ever was out there and then shut the door and lugged a box into the living room. "It's for you!" she said. So I went and got my scissors and did battle with the tape on the box....
I opened it up and found lots of ( Read more... )