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Nicole Walsh Author

Jan 2

Is it time to talk mountains?

Originally published on my website, 20 May 2022 Many moons ago, in a previous life as a youth worker, one of my favourite activities with a young person was drawing a huge, craggy mountain on a whiteboard with cute coloured markers. I’m a city girl. Most of the young people…

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Jan 2

The space between things

Originally published on my website, 6 May 2022 When was the last time you did nothing at all? I don’t mean lying on a couch watching TV, or scrolling through news feeds, or listening to music, or text chatting a mate whilst you dodge chores. I mean nothing at all…

Creative Writing

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Creative Writing

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Jan 2

Is ‘pretty’ important?

Originally posted on my website, 22 April 2022 I love stationary. I most particularly like stores that stock stationary items (Officeworks, anyone?). When I was less skin-flint-poor, I spent a lot of time skimming up and down the stationary aisles, admiring the pretties, being inspired by the organised. Fiddling with…

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Jan 2

The sag and drag of gravity

Originally posted on my website, 15 April 2022 Do you remember, back in the day, how crisp and solid bluetack used to be? Is it just me, or has bluetack significantly degraded in quality? The bluetack I use now is soft and strange. It trails off in funny ways, dripping…

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Jan 2

Celebrating the YES

Originally published on my website, 22 Mar 2022 The problem with setting goals for yourself is that your world fills with incomplete or half-completed tasks. The view becomes the mountain yet to climb. I look at my diary. Day after day, week after week, there are reminders of what I…

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Jan 2

What I learned from giving it a go

Originally published on my website, 22 Mar 2022 By the middle of 2022 my first novel should be in people’s hands. This is equal parts appalling and exciting. It has launched me on a very new, very steep learning curve around promotions and marketing as I flounder and splash about…

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Jan 2

The tools we choose

Originally published on my website, 28 Jan 2022 The best investment in my creative world, my most stalwart companion, trainer and boss is my yearly organiser/diary. I purchase this in December each year. It’s a big deal for me. I spend weeks making my decision. I annoy all my friends…

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Jan 2

Auditing the sparkles

Originally posted on my website, 14 Jan 2022 I spent the week auditing my sparkles. I am studiously avoiding doing any actual writing by spending a week playing with all my project glimmers and ideas, fiddling about with little scraps of paper, shifting them about on my wall space. Creating…

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Jan 1

At home writing retreats: what I learned

Originally published on my website, 31 Dec 2021 Graced with a quiet house and an extraordinarily tight budget, I plan to welcome in 2022 with a five-day writing retreat — budget style! I enjoyed a few four-day “at home” writing retreats (ie diving deep into anti-social, unwashed hermit-hood wrapped in…

Creative Writing

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Creative Writing

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Jan 1

The big review: packing for 2022

Originally published on my website, 17 Dec 2021 Some of us may be lucky enough to be heading away for the holiday season. Do you remember back when we USED to travel? Figuring out what we needed, what we will take, what we will leave behind. Cramming it all into…

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Nicole Walsh Author

Nicole Walsh Author

Nicole writes short and novel length speculative fiction. She writes a weekly blog at: https://nicolewalshauthor.com/ or www.facebook.com/nicolewalshauthor

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