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Career Privilege

Posted on May 18, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Career Privilege

Career Privilege When I was job hunting early in 2022 I was involved in a few conversations online recently where people were talking about how only those with a level of privilege can go from one ideal job in their career to the next.   What is the privilege? To be clear, the main part […]

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Cozy Mystery Conversion Journal 3

Posted on May 14, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Cozy Mystery Conversion Journal 1

Setting brainstorm – one thing I learned from the cozy mystery series I read was that setting felt like a huge part of the narrative. My current thought process is to amalgamate a couple of towns, gives me the convenience of picking and choosing aspects that make the mystery better.      

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Developing An Art Practice

Posted on May 9, 2022May 9, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Developing An Art Practice

Years ago I quit a job ahead of time (I was going back to uni) and spent some of my meagre savings (that probably should have gone on rent) on art supplies. Nothing came of it because I couldn’t give myself permission to “waste” and learn.   My history with art is … not great. […]

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April Creative Contemplations

Posted on April 30, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Creative Contemplations

Project updates: My Fictional Life With Kids: Need to fix up hosting. It’s annoying. Totally Normal Dollhouse: Zero progress since I caught covid. Boo hiss to the plague.   This month I was: Reading: All the Cassie Coburn novels. Gaming: Got obsessively into high scores on Mini Metro+ …letting it run for hours to get […]

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Switching My Brain Off

Posted on April 13, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Switching My Brain Off

Four days. I have four straight days off from my day job, thanks to public holidays. I tell you what, I don’t much like Christianity but I’ll take the public holidays they give me.   But already my brain is swapping to “what can I get done?” mode. Why? Why do we do this to […]

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Cozy Mystery Conversion Journal 2

Posted on April 6, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Cozy Mystery Conversion Journal 1

Cozy Mystery Conversion Journal 2   I accidentally skipped a book in the cozy mystery series I’m reading…. and learned you can see some gaps but it doesn’t matter too much.      

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March Creative Contemplations

Posted on March 31, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Creative Contemplations

Feeling bundles of frustration and pain flares. Lots of “ugh, life: stuff to deal with. Pain flares, after effects of flood stress even though we didn’t flood. Wondering if I’ll ever have enough energy to juggle a day job and my creative projects and my business projects. Oh yeah, then, after two very successful years […]

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Book Conversion

Posted on March 20, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Book Conversion

I have a romance series vaguely plotted out. Worked on it a bit during NaNoWriMo 2021. It’s sitting around 11k words. Only I realised I am not interested (which with ADHD means not able, interest driven motivation ftw I guess?) in writing a romance. But I did like what I had so far, and didn’t […]

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Tendrils of Sleep

Posted on February 28, 2022by Vanessa Smith
tendrils of sleep

You can feel them long before they strike. Someone was missing, something in your space feels empty, and yet you know it’s lurking close by.   You can go frantic looking for them, but nothing happens until you are alone and asleep.   You wake up suddenly in terror. You notice the tightness of your […]

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February Creative Contemplations

Posted on February 28, 2022May 10, 2022by Vanessa Smith
Creative Contemplations

I feel like I did a lot in January (snarky gratitude journal, dollhouse project) and nothing in February. But I started a new day job and did that “be kind to yourself” stuff that was all about NOT doing things while I went through change. Ugh. Like, being kind to yourself is good but it’s […]

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