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“I cried when I read your edit…”

“I cried when I read your edit…”

I don't often blow my own trumpet but I did want to share this beautiful response from an editing client: Hi Liliane, I cried when I read your edit, it's so freakin awesome! You've transformed a mess of ideas into something truly beautiful. I cannot thank you enough!...

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Passive or Private?

Passive or Private?

It was a blast to be teaching again via Learning Laneway. I presented my 'Free Your Creative Voice & Impact Your Readers' introductory session online a couple of weeks ago, and it was so good to be sharing this material again after quite a long time out of...

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Free Your Creative Writing Voice

Free Your Creative Writing Voice

I am enlightened to once again be offering an intro to my Creative Writing course! "Enlightened?" you ask. Well, I'm also doing a deep dive into language and how it's been used to control us over the last few hundred years. It was pointed out to me that the prefix...

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Christmas smashed, New Year saturated!

Christmas smashed, New Year saturated!

After a beautiful day with family on the 25th December, my husband and I settled down to watch a movie just after 8.00pm. Lightning was flashing outside and we were looking forward to some rain for the garden, but we were not expecting what was about to happen. About...

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W.H.O.’s on First?

W.H.O.’s on First?

You know that great comedy routine by Abbott & Costello in the black & white era?("Who's on first, What's on second and I-don't-know's on third...") It's fairly straightforward by comparison with the trick being played on us by the W.H.O.,which is...

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Playing with [V] words

Playing with [V] words

Early in the Plandemic I wrote a blog called 'The Iris and the Axe (just add the Vs)'; it's time now for 'The Oice', only this title doesn't work as well. (That said, it's only a short distance to 'oink', which is not far off the point…) Piggybank image courtesy...

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