Category: memoir
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My money doesn’t jiggle jiggle, it folds :)
This month’s Medium earnings: Not bad from my 1st payment of $10.25USD…I’m slowly getting there!
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Dad trying to live vicariously through me.
I suspect my Dad wanted to be a sports legend. Because he’d “missed his shot”, Dad tried to achieve his goal through me instead. At first, trying new things was fun. “Netball!” Dad exclaimed one day. “Huh?” I didn’t even look away from the TV. I’m a couch person, me. “All Aussie girls play Netball,…
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I made my first ever $10.25USD as a writer :)
I saw on a fellow blogger’s site that she had made over $1000USD on a site called “Medium” where her blogs earnt money. The 5-year-old that lives in my heart was all “Yaaaasss!!! MONEEEEEEEYYYY” so of course, I joined. There’s a $5.00 a month membership fee and it’s definitely a different world to WordPress –…
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Bloganuary – If you had a million US dollars, how would you spend it?
I don’t remember if it was a MILLION or a BILLION dollars – and there’s obviously a HUGE difference there (ahahahahaa!) but for now, let’s go with the ‘smaller’ amount so I don’t have an anxiety attack. Haha. What I would do with a MILLION US DOLLARS – About 2 Million Aussie dollars – is…
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Bloganuary – Why do you write?
Writing to me started out as a way to comfort myself. I was left out in my family and didn’t have many friends at school, so I wrote in my little diary with it’s tiny gold padlock and it was like a friend that I could always confide in. As I grew older, writing in…
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New Year’s Eve
Raaaaaa. Where to even begin? So much has happened in the last 4-6 weeks, I don’t even know how to tell you all about it without going on a huge RANT and boring you to death, lol. Let’s just say it’s been an emotional rollercoaster that I have wanted to jump off many times, but…
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The heart of my Memoir
I signed onto a free online class about Memoir writing today. It was difficult to concentrate solely on the class and not look around the room or let my mind drift off to other things. Something I picked up on was finding the heart of my Memoir. The Lecturer said her Memoir started out as…
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Writing a “Big, sexy hook”
My book coach says to start each chapter of my Memoir ‘with a hook‘ so here’s my re-write for chapter 2, “Obsession“. I’d love to know what you think, guys. The Original beginning of the chapter: When I met him, I was 14 and “Will” was 16. He was broken on the inside, mouthy, sarcastic,…
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My 2nd meeting with my Book Coach
In other news, I’m working on editing and refining my Memoir while I’m here in Hospital. I finally have time to sit under a tree (the birdsong in the hospital Courtyard is absolutely amazing) and write…or in this case, RE-WRITE my memoir chapters. Today I had my 2nd ‘over the phone’ meeting with my Book…
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Writer’s homework
My book Coach Annie sent me ‘homework’ to do regarding my Memoir and I wanted to share my answers with you…because…why not? (just quietly, I am an attention whore and love it). Here you go: Writing exercises: What is your memoir’s working title? Why did you choose it? What other titles have you considered? Why…
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