Shambolic Living

Interesting Reads

Janine — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 03:38:29 +0000

I’ve ventured back into the social media sphere this week and here’s my eclectic mix of articles ‘n stuff that I found of interest. A nice wrap of my generation in – Generation X’s journey from jaded to sated. The question of being “nice” was on my mind again after Lisa Lintern wrote about it...

Books and Writers

Janine — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:01:45 +0000

I spent the weekend before Easter at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival. Bellingen is a beautiful town on the Bellinger River. It has a tiny population of just 2,721 but bats above it’s weight in terms of community. It also has a cafe strip to rival any city – this is a place that...

The Power Of Words

Janine — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:02:33 +0000

Those of us who blog, or like to read blogs are very aware of the power of words. However, this video says it in the most eloquent way possible. I first saw this video at a work conference last year, thanks to Kirri White at Success Coach for reminding me of it this morning.

Your Life In Six Words

Janine — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:41:59 +0000

Do you remember Ernest Hemingway’s short, short story. For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.? At the Smith Magazine Larry Smith used Hemingway’s story as inspiration and asked his readers to describe their lives in six words. It was supposed to be a month long competition but now five years later it’s still going strong. Oprah...

Letter to my 16 year old self

Janine — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:30:58 +0000

Have you seen the book “Dear Me, A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self“? An array of celebrities write a letter to their teenage self. If you could jump in the DeLorean and head back to the future to meet up with the kid you once were what advice would you offer? Here’s my attempt. Dear...

NaNoWriMo – The Confession

Janine — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:38:11 +0000

Big cheers please, my friend Michele from Savannah Photography completed the 50,000 words in 30 days for NaNoWriMo. I’m expecting that when her book is published the dedication will read “To my dear friend Janine who provided the link (literally) to NaNoWriMo that enabled me to produce this bestseller thereby rescuing me from a life...

NaBloPoMo Celebration

Janine — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:27:12 +0000

On this last day of November I can celebrate my successful completion of NaBloPoMo. We won’t mention NaNoWriMo – that will get it’s own blog of humiliation tomorrow. Day in day out I managed to get a post up every 24 hours for the month. I got up early and stayed up late to get...

Reading This Week – Bereft – Chris Womersley

Janine — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:43:10 +0000

The new novel by Chris Womersley is a dark tale with Gothic sensibilities. Womersley portrays a world of sadness and pain, set in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War and in the midst of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Ten years earlier Quinn Walker had fled his hometown of Flint when he was...

Writing The Great Aussie Novel During NaNoWriMo

Janine — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:33:49 +0000

Saturday 6.00am – Rise early to avoid the family. Sit down at computer. Write sentence. 6.05am – Dogs realise you are up, start whimpering. 6.10am – Let dogs out the front of the house. One takes off down the road. Chase after in pyjamas, asphalt pinching into bare feet. Fit looking blokes training for some...