Write: try this writing exercse.Create a brief list consisting of: three different characters three different locations three different events. Now choose one from each of the categories and make some notes about how you could bring them together to make a story. Then try starting the story and writing a few paragraphs. Can you see a theme … Continue reading Writing Exercise for Week 11 – Short Story
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Writing Exercise for Week 10
Write: try this writing exercise.Think of a topic on which you could write a personal essay. Write a plan for it. what would your theme be? what do you want to say through the essay? what research would you need to do? how much of yourself would you reveal? what would most challenge you about … Continue reading Writing Exercise for Week 10
An exercise in Observation
8am - The Neighbour Rainy overcast day, grey clouds. A lone magpie walks on her front lawn. Nearby a 'skeletal' tree, a sad reminder of a better time where leaves once flourished; now, there are none. Pots of varying sizes hang from the lower branches bearing the only semblance of greenery; various cuttings from other … Continue reading An exercise in Observation
Media, Race & Ethnicity (for Uni)
What have you found particularly interesting about the lecture and the readings? What I found interesting about the lecture & readings was the fact that the media is not as objective as I initially thought. I'd never realised how biased the media is to white Australia and how discriminatory it is towards other races. I … Continue reading Media, Race & Ethnicity (for Uni)
Intro to Writing – Lecture One
My personal responses to the lecture This lecture made me think deeper about so many areas of writing. Deeper in ways that I never actually thought, and already with the first lecture, it has opened my mind to the possibilities out there, but also the pitfalls involved in writing. The question of self is a … Continue reading Intro to Writing – Lecture One
How to introduce boiled chicken to a kitten.
How to introduce boiled chicken to a kitten.The following have volunteered (involuntarily) to assist me in this instruction:6 week old Sinatra7 week old sisters: Willow, Gypsy, Prini9 week old Nessie.Sinatra: Place food in front of Sinatra. Move fingers away quickly in case fingers are mistaken for chicken.Gypsy: 1. Place plate down.2. Pick up Gypsy, return her to … Continue reading How to introduce boiled chicken to a kitten.
Guidance
8:30pm, I felt the call of a nap. *************************** Crossing the busy road, I headed toward a crowded coffee shop. On entering, I was about to find a seat when I saw mum leaving the cashier and heading out the door, so chose to leave and catch up with her instead. We met up further down the road … Continue reading Guidance
Stopping Time
All those years ago, I see now why mum had a calendar by her bed, and why she looked at it every day. It didn't make sense to me at the time, but it does now.Because I have to check the date every day for certain facebook responsibilites, I find I remember every day, and … Continue reading Stopping Time
Ode to Teen Cats
Why is the scratch pole lying down?And the plastic bag in the water?Why is the oven mitt on the ground?And everything in disorder?Now that I've cleaned the litterAnd I've tidied up around;Everything looks so much betterPlease don't mess up the ground!Alas! Books strewn everywhereGone from the neat bookshelvesIn the curtain there's a tear...What I'd give … Continue reading Ode to Teen Cats
It Never Rains, It Pours!!
When it rains, it bloody pours.. it's bad enough that I'm still paying off my scooter, I had hoped to get my yard done so I no longer had to deal with grass, on top of everything else, now Cleo Spirit needs an operation!I noticed her limping earlier this morning. I just thought she pulled … Continue reading It Never Rains, It Pours!!
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