Author: lisahannett

Unless finishing critting before midnight is an early night at Clarion. (I suspect it is.) Too tired to work on Week 3 story right now… I’ve got the first line down. The rest will come. But not tonight.Haiku for tomorrow–a riff off of Steph’s story:Reluctant pirateTorn by moral dilemmasNo killing for her. 

My body hasn’t quite decided if it’s caught a cold or if it’s suffering from allergies. Either way, I’ve been doing my best to alleviate the symptoms of this mysterious condition by eating lots of chocolate and Nanaimo bars (the last of these c/o Ron. Lucky me – you just can’t get Nanaimo bars like…… Continue reading Weird upon weird upon weird

Drunk uni students outside must be shot. Especially when it is after midnight and I’m still not done critting tomorrow’s stories. Especially when I’ve got allergies and my eyes are all itchy. Especially when I’m tired. Have I mentioned I’m not done critting yet? People will be able to say whatever they want about my…… Continue reading Still critting…

Lindt chocolate with caramel. Dark chocolate with mixed berries. Lindt chili chocolate. Need I say more?

Three haiku (is the plural ‘haikus’? That just sounds wrong…) for today. A rested brain is a productive brain. Actually, I realised that my brain is like the Dalek that appears in Dr Who (Rob Shearman’s Dalek: the one with heart): if you torture it, it will be stubbornly silent. But if you treat it…… Continue reading Untitled

How could I forget?  petermball kindly gave us a lift back to KG this afternoon (and Angela made us a yummy lunch before our return–thanks to both of you!), and I realised that Pete is the human manifestation of the devil on my shoulder… Will do my best to show less mercy in crits this week,…… Continue reading Devil on my shoulder

I feel refreshed.Angela and I escaped to the wonderful retreat of her house for the weekend, and I feel SO relaxed, rejuvenated, ready for the week to come as a result. Saturday ROCKED.We woke up early and went into town. I had a nice chat with Chad on the phone and did some browsing while…… Continue reading Weekendy goodness

While having dinner tonight, I realised that I was so productive today because I had been unconsciously tapping into the fury of writing energy bursting out of Angela’s room all afternoon… Every day this week, my brain has been in deep freeze. Ideas? What? Fluid sentences? Not appearing they were. Story? How ’bout a paragraph?…… Continue reading In which I avoid critting…

Next time my brain bottlenecks (such a great way to describe it) the first thing I’m going to do is start chatting with Angela while I make dinner. I’m positive that’s what fixed it (OK, well, ‘fixed’ might be too strong a word, considering my new story is currently about 400 words long–but our chat…… Continue reading Mojo is returning, slowly.

So I’m feeling like my brain is kinda blank at the moment.Many hours have passed in front of this computer today, and I have managed to wring 300 words out of my head and squeeze them, kicking and screaming all the way, onto the screen. Sean has assigned us the task of writing a haiku…… Continue reading No mo’ mojo