Hello my friends!
I’ve been away a lot in the last few weeks. First to Sydney with two writerly friends and then Anglesea with another two writerly friends.
As I packed to go to Sydney, I felt the pressure of not being able to take all the things I usually do when I retreat to writer. The books were too heavy and who lugs a table, screen, keyboard and mouse on and off planes and trains and buses? I also felt cheeky going all that way to the shiny city to write. I mean, theoretically, I could write anywhere. And while I have a resting manuscript set in Sydney, the manuscript I’m working on is not.
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The good things about being in Sydney, though, were spending time with Katherine and Jane; having time to explore the Hawkesbury river area for my other manuscript and going out for drinks and dinner with a bunch of Sydney writers who I knew mostly through socials. I did also move my current wor…
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