For all my fellow writers out there, struggling to get through your current work in progress, I see you and I feel you. This shit is tough. For me, it’s mostly tough because I get in my own God damn…
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As I’ve been struggling with creativity for WEEKS, I’ve decided to write about my guilty pleasures, mundane items and anything else that doesn’t stir up resentment and frustration within my soul. Like After We Collided, the movie. I am STILL…
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Do you love yourself an addictive contemporary romance? Because same. I don’t know why it’s taken me a pandemic to get on board with the Ten Tiny Breaths series, but I’m not mad about it (I mean, I’m not mad…
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Given the shitshow that has been the year 2020, I feel very lucky to have managed a lovely, albeit brief, getaway. My partner and I decided to spend four nights in Mooloolaba, Queensland. We chose somewhere within driving distance because…
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As I write this, I am in the later stages of dealing with a cold/virus. The blinds are drawn on every window in my apartment and I am onto my third day of binge-watching Elementary (how good). My face hurts…
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Guys, I’m going vegan. Not really. Whilst I think it’s admirable and vegan food can taste amazing, I don’t have any plans to become a vegan or vegetarian (not just yet anyway). BUT, I do have my vegan friends to…
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‘Well, not everything is about race you know.’ I said that once. Me. A privileged white woman who has never known any real hardship in her life, actually muttered those words to whoever was in the room as I sipped…
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It’s been fifty-leven days, umpteen hours now. I work from home. I do Click ‘n’ Collect. I complete mat Pilates sessions on my living room floor. Some days I never leave the apartment. What about you? I spend hours thinking…
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So, I bought a used PlayStation 3 (PS3). #isomademedoit I figure now is the best time to indulge in something I would never normally entertain, and while I’m at it, buy some games from my childhood. So, I purchased Rayman…
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Bear with me while I am overly self-indulgent for a minute. Or a couple of minutes. I haven’t written a blog post in over two months. I’ve completely stalled on progressing my novel. I’m overeating. I find myself indulging in…