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Writing in the shadows: April 2008
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? And the rewriting continues. I chucked the whole convict doco storyline that I started working on in January- it was awful! I originally wrote the diary excerpts because I wanted Tash's voice to appea...
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Writing in the shadows: When reality is too real
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? When reality is too real. Is it for teachers to help them get a better understanding of what it's like to live with violence? Absolutely. Do they deserve to have their stories told? The devil you know.
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Writing in the shadows: September 2009
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? When reality is too real. Is it for teachers to help them get a better understanding of what it's like to live with violence? Absolutely. Do they deserve to have their stories told? The devil you know.
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Writing in the shadows: August 2009
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? Defining myself as a writer. Here's a random example:. Better, better, best, bitter, butter, bust. The ideas flooding into her head now were scaring her shitless because they were coming in like l...
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Writing in the shadows: July 2008
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? Time to start the thesis. I think I'll just do some more reading in the genre and see what other gems I can find before I make my final choice. To enter the Text Publishing young adult fiction competi...
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Writing in the shadows: February 2009
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? Instead, my focus was now on resilience and coping strategies in teenagers, as well as mental illness and the impact of trauma on brain development. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I write speculative fic...
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Writing in the shadows: July 2009
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? Outcomes are so yesterday. What are you achieving? The next time I go on about achieving outcomes and setting goals I'm going to slap myself (& if you're anywhere close by feel free to join in). M...
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Writing in the shadows: Montgomery Burns outshone by the Productivity Commission
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? Montgomery Burns outshone by the Productivity Commission. Well, he aint got nothin' on Australia's Productivity Commission! They now want to destroy Australia's publishing industry. The commission's m...
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Writing in the shadows: The joy of creation
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? The joy of creation. Sometimes when I'm reading fiction I feel the writer's hard work as they strive for that 'right' word or phrase, that doesn't end up coming out 'right' at all because the strain o...
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Writing in the shadows: Writing for joy
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Writing in the shadows. For a teenage girl, any and every situation can seem life and death. It's easy to discount their behaviour as irrational, as coming from the hormones exploding through their brains and bodies. But what if the turmoil of the teenage years makes them vulnerable to psychic disturbances? Although I'm very glad I did my Masters, and I'm looking forward to the future challenge of a Phd, nothing beats writing just for the pure joy of it. Not mine, the characters.). It seems that, when I ...
