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Stupid is as stupid does

I know there’s a million jokes about it..
I know Shania Twain wrote a song about it.
I know Forest Gump made a saying famous about it.
I know I’m stupid.

I’m laughing, but it’s a kind of shoot-me-now-and-put-me-out-of-my-misery laugh.
Well, they shoot horses, don’t they?
What sort of person enters a full ms competition THEN – thinking they don’t have a chance in hell – decide to pull the story apart and start a rewrite.
Ahhh! That would be me – the stupid one.
Yep! I finalled in a comp that now requires I put the bloody thing back togther ready for submission in a week.
I know, I know – I hear you. That will teach me for not being positive.
See you on the other side!
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Life Imitates Arts Cruelly Sometimes

Oscar Wilde said, “Life imitates art, more than art imitates life“.  I wish it did so we could all get our happy ever after.

You may have read an earlier blog about my latest work-in-progress House for all Seasons.

I’ve based one of my four female characters – a breast cancer survivor – on a wonderful woman called Pam Leicester. (Pam and I once made a pretty good team, winning a national road safety award for our NRMA Young Driver Education program.)
I worked with Pam through her initial diagnosis, through surgery, then Chemo. She was inspirational. In my novel, my character’s courage and determination to get through her ‘bucket list’ comes from my memories of Pam.

Sadly, I heard Pam (she’s the shorty in the pic) lost her almost ten-year battle last week. It was the day before her 45th birthday.

As a writer, through Sara’s character, I can at least give Pam the happy ever after she deserved.

Always remembered.