Writer’s Block, creative constipation, artist’s block – whatever you want to call it – is a big problem for writers, artists, musicians, and creative professionals. Some people say that ‘writer’s block’ doesn’t really exist – that you aren’t trying hard enough, don’t have a good routine, are quitting, etc. Others, including many suffering writers of… Continue Reading
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Encounters with the Paranormal: Ghosts of War
One night, soon after getting my very first internet-connected computer, I was sitting up late on Altavista (anyone remember that?), surfing the Australian National War Memorial site, looking for family records. James Emanuel Callard was KIA on my birthday in 1917 – mowed down in Ypres on the 8th of June, 68 years before I… Continue Reading
Genre Fiction: May Contain Queer
At risk of further alienating my straight male and female audiences (don’t worry, there’s stuff for you all as well!), I am here today to rant about one of my greatest passions/peeves – the way in that people generally expect genre fiction to be automatically heterosexual in theme, whereas ‘LGBT fiction’ is not fiction which… Continue Reading
Near Death Experiences and Asthma Attacks
So recently, I nearly ended up in hospital after having two severe asthma attacks in a row, right?It really sucked, but it got me thinking about the way in which we handle health crises, and how anxiety about health actually doesn’t really have anything to do with the experience of physical crisis. The symptoms of… Continue Reading
Eight of Wands: Leaps of Progress
The tarot card, the Eight of Wands or Rods, is the card in the Tarot that represents great leaps of progress – energetic bounds through time, the place in time where we haul ourselves up the metaphorical precipice. In my deck, the card has got a woman leaping energetically from step to step on a… Continue Reading
Liber Mortis – The Book of the Dead
The original Book of the Dead, the Egyptian text, was a book that was written for dead royalty that was buried with them to ensure their smooth journey through the underworld. The literal translation of the title actually doesn’t mention death at all – it was actually called the ‘Book of emerging forth into the… Continue Reading