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August: When to abandon a goal?
At the beginning of 2023 I set myself quite a few writing and freelance goals. Having last month reviewed my income for the first half of the year as well as the 2022/2023 financial year in Australia, I thought this month it would be good to look back on my goals and how they’re tracking…
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July: In which I catch up
I missed May and June… whoops. I’m pregnant, remember, and I will blame that for everything (forever). So this is going to be a catch up post. In Australia, July marks the start of the new financial year, and is also roughly a year since I left my part-time job to pursue freelance. I think…
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Tax Time with Lindy Alexander
It’s tax time over in Australia. This not so wonderful time of the year can be a minefield, especially if you’re a creative or freelancer of some sort. Luckily Lindy Alexander, over on the Freelancer’s Year took the time to speak to Mark Chapman from H&R Block Australia. She put together this extraordinary guide to…
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May: In which I don’t really remember
This post is coming in a few weeks late. As a result, I’m not really sure what happened in May and what happened in early June. I also had a horrendous two week cold and am in the 1st trimester of pregnancy, s things have been a little chaotic. But I’ll try and cast my…
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‘You Can’t Go Home’ highly commended
I come to you today with some positive news! The first win (well, highly commended) to come out of my huge push on short story submissions this year. My flash fiction piece ‘You Can’t Go Home’ has been highly commended in the Gippsland Writers Network Summer ‘Home’ Writing Competition. You can read it and the…
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April: In which things changed
April was such a whirlwind of a month that I almost forgot to write this blog post. There were job opportunities to consider, life stuff that transpired. Easter happened. It was a month and I lost track of a lot of things, however I did catch up on some writing goals so lets check out…
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Trusting Yourself with Lian Tanner
This amazing interview with Lian Tanner on the podcast The Sunshine House with Zanni Louise has a lot to offer. The thing that most resonated with me and has been occupying my mind lately, is the way writers grow to trust themselves. As we write more and more, we begin to trust our style, our…
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March: In which targets we’re forgotten
Wow what a month. We all had RSV for two weeks. I saw Hamilton in Brisbane (it lived up to the hype). We saw penguins in Tasmania (and a platypus too). And I started working on the education writing commission I mentioned last month. In the whirlwind my pitching and submission targets dropped off, but…
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February: In which I leapt ahead
February was a strong month in terms of submissions and pitches. I had a weekend getaway early on which coincided with an exciting opportunity resulting from last months mass LOI send out. I was commissioned for an wrote an article which will be published and paid for in March. Freelance Pitches and follow-ups sent: 4…
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5 markets that pay for previously published short stories
** the markets and opportunities discussed in this article are largely for speculative fiction short stories. When you’ve been lucky enough to have a short story published you might think that’s the end of it. It’s not. Previously published short stories still have plenty of life left in them. There are opportunities for these stories…