Conflux 5

I have finally finished the first progress report for Conflux 5 and it is now on the Conflux Website! I think it looks kind of snazzy, if I do say so myself. The new logo tries to capture the feel of the Roaring 20s. I spent a while researching 1920s fonts and colours, magazines and fashions.

I had loads of fun. The progress report even features a marvellous new fiction story from Robert Hood.

Gillian Polack has said all kinds of extravagantly nice things about it on her blog at http://gillpolack.livejournal.com/.

Writers' Caves

Pandababy reminded me about Writer's Caves and the disorientation writers can experience when they are forced out of their cosy caves. Caves are not meant to be subject to restructuring. They should be sacred, permanent, immutable as granite. A place to invite the muse into and give her a cup of hot milk with honey (or red wine, if she'd rather imbibe. Evoi! Let's party.)

Like Virginia Wolf, a woman needs a room of her own to be creative. Heavy sigh. My cave is more of a nook in the corner of the living room than a fully excavated cave. It's a nice nook with a really funky feminine desk that reminds me of a waterfall because it's got three levels for the information to flow down, but my nook is a bit too accessable for intimate conversations with the muse. It does have a dark blue Indian cotton rug, cds, books, dark red filing cabinets, a stone carving of an owl a rainbow pyramid, pretty glass bottles, a crystal ball come paperweight that is too beautiful to use, and a rusty old hammer head I dug out of the garden that makes a funtional, mysterious history laden paper weight.

Anyway - Paige Cuccaro (http://www.paigecuccaro.com/html/the_cave.html) has some awesome pictures of writer's caves, including Kim Harrison, Laurell K Hamilton, Kelly Armstrong and Janet Evanovich.


What's your cave like?

Who am I

I googled myself today. Always a fun thing to find out about yourself. It's picking up lots of stuff about Conflux 4 (me), Shiney Bum Singers (me - emeritus member, I was a founder member and I sang for 3 whole years), a signature on a Save the Whales list (not me - that Jane is in Darwin, a few hundred kilometres away) , credit on a Costs of Disability publication (me, some years old now, an alias for Mr Zodiac in Spiderman (not me unless I'm sleep-acting), a DJ (not me) and someone who has started a blog with the same name (definitely not me - nothing there but a load of ads.

I can deal with being an arch villain, but I don't wanna get hits as an ad. Wah.