Category Archives: Writing Ranting

We’re still on our journey through last Saturday, at the CYA Later, Alligator writing conference in Brisbane. Kids, I’ve been to university. I know what it’s like to pay loads of money to sit in a room listening to someone’s monotone and ultimately learn nothing except how to sleep sitting up. . . . I swallowedContinue reading “#198: Endure until Awesome”

The CYA Later, Alligator conference offered an excellent opportunity for targeted (and paid) schmoozing. I paid my fee (which includes having the publisher read the synopsis and beginning before seeing me) and chose Publisher J, based on their small size joined with respectability. They have a bit of a literary bent, which doesn’t tend to getContinue reading “#197: The Pitch”

About thirty minutes ago, I wrote: Today was packed so full of awesome I don’t have time to blog about it until tomorrow. It did involve coins in my bra, a chance re-meeting, six hours of fruitless lurking, a zombie apocalypse planning session with someone whose name I didn’t catch, and a perky song “basedContinue reading “#195: Packed Full of Awesome”

It’s a new day. Weelll. . . it’s a lot like yesterday. I’m still unpublished, still sick, and still away from home. But. It IS the beginning of a new twittertale, and it’s the first day of Spring. From the first time I read this item on SteffMetal.com’s list of awesomeness, I planned to celebrateContinue reading “S#96: Celebrate Random Holidays”

Here I am again, perched beside the Tim Burton eyeball balloon*. My first session today is cursed. I wasn’t able to get the author’s book from the ACT public library (I tried twice). Then this morning, I missed my train. Cue urge to kill. Then it turned out to be in a different building – nearContinue reading “#194: Flee”

 And here’s a Daily Awesomeness I prepared earlier, while driving along Kingsford Smith Drive in Canberra (it is truly awesome that these photos were taken five minutes away from the city centre). And now, the main event: How’d my schmoozing go yesterday?  Now is as good a time as any to admit that I hateContinue reading “#183: Rainbow yay!”