i am now the proud mother of jenjen.com.au. i'll be transferring all these little remarks over there in the near future. there's a skeleton site up, if you want to have a poke around. it's not very exciting. i was going to write 'yet' but i wouldn't want you to get your hopes up.
the new site is all about me getting over being crap at self-promotion and trying to make a name for myself as some kind of renegade figure in the middle-sized pond of australian literature. at the start of 2006 i selfishly declared this the international year of jen-gets-published. it's also about me being too lazy to write bios, and the fact that if i make zines in alice springs i only have an audience of about four people.
owning a domain name feels strangely adult. in other worrying trends, the other morning i woke up with the desire to eat an egg and to enrol to vote. i got over them both pretty quickly. must be something weird in that homebrew stout.
what else. oh, i am going to broome in july with my housemate. we're going to drive up the tanami track. as yet, i can't drive. not precisely. i can maneuver a vehicle around in a sort of unpredictable and potentially dangerous manner. i am trying to do something about this.
all i do at the moment is write a book, watch football, make fires, and cook, apart from the odd bit of improvised carpentry. i spent a fruitful week making a dining table, even bought that orbital sander i've always wanted. i'm getting more patient with it, i can do something properly now instead of having to finish everything in one day. but i still insist on making everything up as i go along, and out of trash.
book is going well, but i still don't want to talk about it. i reply to all inquiries monosyllabically. i think other people find this annoying. if you're writing a book, if you admit you are or someone else outs you, you need to be prepared to deal with the insistent questioning. in theory, i really like this. it's an acknowledgement that books refuse to be private property. everyone has a right to know what it's about.
in practice, i wish i had been smart enough to lie from the start.
the new site is all about me getting over being crap at self-promotion and trying to make a name for myself as some kind of renegade figure in the middle-sized pond of australian literature. at the start of 2006 i selfishly declared this the international year of jen-gets-published. it's also about me being too lazy to write bios, and the fact that if i make zines in alice springs i only have an audience of about four people.
owning a domain name feels strangely adult. in other worrying trends, the other morning i woke up with the desire to eat an egg and to enrol to vote. i got over them both pretty quickly. must be something weird in that homebrew stout.
what else. oh, i am going to broome in july with my housemate. we're going to drive up the tanami track. as yet, i can't drive. not precisely. i can maneuver a vehicle around in a sort of unpredictable and potentially dangerous manner. i am trying to do something about this.
all i do at the moment is write a book, watch football, make fires, and cook, apart from the odd bit of improvised carpentry. i spent a fruitful week making a dining table, even bought that orbital sander i've always wanted. i'm getting more patient with it, i can do something properly now instead of having to finish everything in one day. but i still insist on making everything up as i go along, and out of trash.
book is going well, but i still don't want to talk about it. i reply to all inquiries monosyllabically. i think other people find this annoying. if you're writing a book, if you admit you are or someone else outs you, you need to be prepared to deal with the insistent questioning. in theory, i really like this. it's an acknowledgement that books refuse to be private property. everyone has a right to know what it's about.
in practice, i wish i had been smart enough to lie from the start.
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hey jen,
found you on this lovely sunday between being productive and having a nap and what i felt like doing was reading a good book, found your blog instead which is exactly what i felt like reading only i didn't know it.
love monika
somewhere between being productive and having a nap... should be a jacket quote
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