Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

I am not a travel memoir reader, but this is a journey-book, of as the cliched term describes it "self discovery." Though I do not see the world exactly as she does, (and who ever does anyway?) I have found many parallels to myself in her personality and how she experiences everything. She is entertaining and funny. Sometimes she seems too American but mostly her nationality is not obvious. In our lives there are a few uncanny similarities that I wont share now cause it would be too personal. I think I will share some quotes I love on the another post. I love books where you laugh out loud and I love it when I have written in the past something that made people laugh out loud, it gives me so much satisfaction and pleasure.

Poem that received a Highly Commended award in the WARM Writing Competition 2010

This poem expressed my emotions following the death of a close friend. As I have said before I do not consider myself a poet, however at the moment, poetry is all I am writing.

Breath

Breath is all that separates,
Me from you,
Now…
So often lately,
I have to remind myself to exhale,
My torso holding my breath in,
Like an unconscious desire,
I have to tell my body to release the air,
Let it escape there.

Cause deep down I know,
It is this simple thing,
These air vapours passing across my tongue,
They are all
That separates me from you.

You lay on the road,
Your life was going,
That day I became breathless,
For no real reason,
But now I know why,
Cause you were leaving,
My body knew.

And now I remind myself,
Breathe, Sue,
Breathe…
Cause sometimes somewhere deep,
I must remember,
It’s the only thing separating me from you.

Film and Television

Hey there!

In a couple of weeks I am going to embark on another subject at QUT, film and television script writing. It should be good and interesting to see how to write this type of work. I hope I can come up with a good idea for a 15 minute drama script. If anyone has done film script writing please feel free to leave any comments on here. I know that with other subjects in the post grad Creative Industries area it is best to prepare yourself with an idea before you start the subject. Notoriously, I usually have an idea but wish to think of something new, this is not always a good strategy. : )

I am trying to be more prepared this time. Regardless of this I am excited to do this subject. I am moving house again, I cannot believe it. But after I have moved I hope my life can get into some kind of groove, as they say.

So if you have anything to share about script writing, feel free. Until next post. Happy writing or happy experimenting. : )

Highly Commended Poem in the Sunshine Coast Literary Association Competition

Hi there,

I received a Highly Commended Award for a poem I entered in the Sunshine Coast Literary Association Awards 2010. I like this poem because it expressed how I felt in the weeks after my close friend died.

It is just nice to have received some recognition for my writing, as we all send out stories or poems, or other items and may not always be accepted. It is nice sometimes to receive something in recognition of our work. Thanks for being here.

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Competitions and Blogger

Hello there, I am not sure what is happening with Blogger but I am hoping my blog wont die in the next few days...

Anyway, I am currently trying to select some poems and maybe a story to send into a competition. I think it is good to just keep sending things into the universe and see what happens with them... : )

I am going to write a post on a novellas and I am also going to run some writing workshops for beginners. If anyone is particularly interested they can email me about it. I am running a writing therapy course for four weeks coming up in May. Writing Therapy - I call it Expressive Writing, is a superb way to release any emotions, memories or things that are holding us captive. I will post more about this later.

I thought maybe I should simply put something up on here, as I haven't communicated on here for so long.

Thanks so much for reading. I love having visitors.

The Wall

A friend reminded me the other day that I should put up the Wall on here.

So here it is.

This was from the Amazon Shorts Competition. The%20Wall.pdf