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The narrative arc of your own life
Making sense of the crazy shit we do
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Babe, that ain't hard
From the separation diaries: for my solo Māmā doing it tough out there
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It's better to write the feelings than to try and outrun them
From the separation diaries
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What is the point of art/story?
In (metaphorical) conversation with Jack Trolove and Anahera Gildea
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Parenting Through Separation
I look around the room and try to pick the leavers from the leavees but it’s impossible, everyone looks the same. Left/bereft - who can tell the difference?
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The only writing prompt you might ever need
I met a couple of kids on the banks of the Wairoa and we got talking.
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Decolonising famous writerly advice with Anahera Gildea
Neil Gaiman says you can do whatever you like as long as you do it with enough assurance. Let's unpack that.
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Feeling the fear and publishing anyway
A mihi + a pledge
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Journals keep us honest. Is that why we always want to burn them?
The best writing skill no-one told me about
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First words: If they don’t come to you, then you might have to go out and meet them
It's not procrastination, it's not science, it's something else entirely
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak
I felt like we needed some light relief this Wednesday - here's Lois, in a throwback from the archives :)
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The myth of 'special treatment' (how not to silence yourself)
It was like an awful, angry, bittersweet gallery of memories and stories. Never any preamble. Just a ricochet of disembodied words, unanswerable questions and occasionally a shard of poetry.