Bunuru, Behind | Djeran, Ahead
February/March Wrap-Up
Hello, friends, and welcome to another bi-monthly wrap-up! I hope you’ve been keeping happy and well these past two months - and especially taking time to rest and find some peace. And amongst all that, I hope you read a great book or two.
I feel like my commitment to my writing and creative practice has been going well this year so far. I’m finding time for it and enjoying getting lost in so many stories.
Bunuru, Behind
Read
The Northern Child by Ashley Cullen
The Glass House by Brooke Dunnell
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan Maguire
The Extinction Trials by S. M. Wilson
Shadows of Truth by Astrid Scholte
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Moontide by Mary Greenwood
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Books read in 2024: 24
Write
I’ve been applying for a lot more competitions and opportunities lately, mostly because I’ve actually had the time to do so while I’ve been spending a day or two a week in the Midland studio. I wrote one short story and a flash fiction piece specifically to enter into things, and in March, I was going between Boy of the Forest and my serial WIP. Both projects are just chugging along, and I’m enjoying them a lot. I wish I was getting through them a bit faster, but I guess I have to blame my focus on that one.
5 things I’ve loved this season
Dystopian stories
McLeod’s Daughters
Making my own smoothies
Dinosaurs
Using the stickers in my diary (in a weird kind of perfectionism, I never use the stickers that come in diaries)
Djeran, Ahead
The cooler weather of Djeran has definitely come in. The nights and mornings are getting quite chilly, and the sun is setting so much earlier than I feel quite ready for yet (I’m an exercise-in-the-evening kinda gal.) But I’m excited for the cooler weather, the cosy clothes, and the opportunities to curl up with a blanket, a cup of tea and a book.
In April, I’ll be spending two weeks at KSP Writers Centre again, working on the Everwolf Chronicles, and in May I’m doing a bit of travelling: Geraldton for The Literature Centre’s Young Writers program, and Margaret River for the Readers and Writers Festival. So there’s a lot of writer-ly goodness coming up that I hope I can channel into my own work. And of course I hope to publish a couple more Manifest posts and continue to connect with you all throughout the next few months! Let me know what you’re working on in autumn, and how you’re finding rest.