If You Write It, They Will Come

It’s not easy being a would be author. First off you have all the time and effort you have to put into creating your work, which you do for free in your spare time since the publishing industry is only interested in finished novels (if you’re writing fiction that is). And then when you want [...]

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And So It Goes

First of all, if you haven’t seen Crazy, Stupid, Love, do! It’s really well made, well written, has some genuine laughs, and Ryan Gosling is brilliant in it. Very cool, very sexy, with some of the best lines in the movie. But anyway, enough of that… So I’ve asked work for a year off, from [...]

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Bad backs, bakeries, and book publishing

I wish I could take my own advice. I had this ‘great revelation’ about not doing vs. trying too hard, especially when it comes to my yoga practice, and then I go and over-stretch doing a sitting forward bend and pull a muscle in my back. Lord what fools these mortals be. But, no experience [...]

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Hello My Beautiful Lovelies

It’s true y’know, the only constant thing in life is change. A couple weeks ago I had no idea what I was doing. Now, all of a sudden, clarity has come. First some thoughts: 1. Inventing recipes and blogging about them in no way means that I should write a cookery book. Why not just [...]

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Time to think

Took a mini hiatus from doing anything to think about what to do next. Here’s what I came up with. 1. Cook more. Gonna stop buying pre-prepared sauces and do more recipes, especially other people’s. Should expand my horizons a bit as well as increase my skill set. 2. Write more. This is actually a [...]

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Apropos o’ nuthin’…

For some reason I’ve suddenly started getting an inordinate amount of dirt spam in my inbox. You know the kind of thing, e-mails from “frasco horner” entitled “kat pigtail toying inflatable drunk” (no kidding, that’s one of them word for word!). It was really starting to get on my tits, ’til I decided to have [...]

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Week 42

Well, I stand by my original statement from last week; working for a living sucks. It’s also a pain in the neck… literally! I did two shifts last week and not only did it cause a muscle spasm that hasn’t gone away, but that’s has translated into a persistent pain in my left shoulder. More [...]

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30 Days of Kiki : day 18

day 18- plans/dreams/goals you have Just two right now, to write, and to cook. Now this moustache thing is coming to a close (a grand total of £427:77 so far!) I want to spend all my spare time working on the new writing project I’ve just started, before I lose the impetus and move on [...]

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30 Days of Kiki : day 9

day 9- something you’re proud of in the past few days I’m proud of a lot of stuff at the moment – completing my moustache growing efforts, going along to the Buddhism class (and choosing not to go back), being organised enough to defrost my fridge – but if we’re talking the last few days [...]

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30 Days of Kiki : day 8

day 8- short term goals for this month and why My short term goals this month are similar to what they are every month – get off your arse, go do something, stop being such a jackass – but more specifically… 1. To do this 30 Days thing every day (and on the day too, [...]

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