What Were You Thinking?
Julia LawrinsonMemoir, musings, and more
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 130 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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Bringing the magic
As regular readers know, I have come to an end of a long cycle with writing (or at least publishing).
Writing has been where I have placed much artistic ambition - to keep challenging myself, to never write the same type of book twice, to...
Spinning around*
Your feel-good recommendation for this week
I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about Kylie Minogue in the 40-odd years I’ve been aware of her existence - well, I didn’t think I had, until I started watching the Netflix documentary on h...
Words, words, words
Can we take some time to listen?
As a writer, I used to have faith in words. I believed that if we could express things clearly, it meant that we would be able to understand things better. I believed that logical and coherent arguments wou...
Reflections on retreating
Tuning out to tune in
My pre-50 year old self would have regarded my post-50 self with bemusement.
Conversations about mor(t)ality and a good enough life
Thoughts about bodily ills, life at any cost, and creating in spite of
The aphorism goes: there’s only one thing worse than getting older, and that’s the alternative.
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Award-winning writer, popular presenter, keen consultant. Author of memoir How To Avoid A Happy Life (Fremantle Press). Latest middle grade book Trapped! (also Fremantle Press). Enthusiastic learner of Indonesian, cello and viola.
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