Month: October 2009

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Class Writing Exercise Week Five: Seven Deadly Sins

Writing The Long Way Around

My only problem with our class exercises is that I never take the time outside of class to either finish them or to flesh out some new ideas.  I was going to change that to ‘find the time’, but you never find time – that is an excuse we tell ourselves when we reach the end of another week and haven’t been to the gym/saw family/tackled the mountain of ironing under which that book you have been looking high and low for three months lives.  Something is either important enough to you and so you do it, or you don’t.  So … Continue reading Class Writing Exercise Week Five: Seven Deadly Sins

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Currently Reading…

Writing The Long Way Around

…until it hurts!  Last night I went to bed early as part of my defensive strategy to overcome some sick bug.  Stupidly, I can say that because I knew what would happen before it happened, I took Steve Toltz’s A Fraction Of The Whole with me and read until my eyes watered.  So my early night turned into a really late night and I am wearing my glasses today because my eyes hurt. Early Night Take Two tonight. Continue reading Currently Reading…

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And I need a manicure for god’s sake!

Writing The Long Way Around

I have exhausted myself just being myself this week.  When you don’t feel well or you are tired, things tend to look a bit more gloomy.  This past week I have been battling some sort of flu/sick virus and panicking about the lack of money and work, and wondering how I am going to pay for things next month; I feel like I am playing catch up on so many things right now across all aspects of my life and I am just tired!  Really tired.  I am exhausted, knackered, wiped out, tired from the inside out, burning the candle at … Continue reading And I need a manicure for god’s sake!

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Autobiographies

Writing The Long Way Around

I am not usually a fan of autobiographies.  Obviously by the very definition, what you are dealing with is one side of the tale; one side of the facts.   I  understand there will be a demand for autobio’s of hugely well known or popular figures, leaders in their field, do-gooders and Jordan, but I have always shied away from – well from exactly the two autobiographies we have had to read for our course.  I have just finished John Burnside’s A Lie About My Father and I also read Janice Galloway’s This is Not About Me. Part of my problem … Continue reading Autobiographies