There's a J In there… Somewhere!
A blog about all sorts of things!
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Melissa Gijsbers
I love books, stories, chai tea, and more
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Writing Stories
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Writing StoriesDuring the week, I started looking at all the stories I’ve written recently. Here are the stats: The numbers above are only stories I’ve written during writers groups since they went online during 2020. I am working out what to do with this information and how these stories can start earning their keep… Not only…
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Review: Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Act Your Age, Eve BrownAuthor: Talia Hibbert Category: Novel Publisher: Piatkus Publication date: 9 March 2021 Blurb: Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong—so she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins a wedding, her parents draw the line. It’s time for Eve to grow…
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Washing the Dishes
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Washing the DishesWashing the dishes is not one of my favourite housework tasks… yet it has to be done. If nothing else so that we have clean plates and cups, but also because we don’t have much bench space. In this house, we don’t have a dishwasher, it’s something that I want in my dream house. It…
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Issue with business plans…
Categories: BusinessContinue Reading: Issue with business plans…I am currently doing a government business program. One of the first things that was required was an incredibly detailed, overengineered (IMO) business plan. For me, these sorts of plans don’t help me succeed. In many ways, the plan was obsolete before it was even finished! But it ticked the boxes. I knew from the…
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Running Out of Steam…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Running Out of Steam…The other week, I posted about how I don’t operate to rewards & punishment. I also mentioned that I’m meant to be doing a 100 day challenge for writing here… Well, what I knew would happen has happened. I have run out of steam. I am exhausted and struggling to come up with ideas for…
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Too many books…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Too many books…I have a problem… There are way too many books being published and I simply can’t keep up! I have so many books on my shelves that I want to read, but haven’t had the time to read them all. It doesn’t help that I keep adding books to the list. It doesn’t help that…
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Sharing the passion
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Sharing the passionOK, so when I was trying to find a photo for this post, the choices were passionfruit or passion in the bedroom… so I went for a passionfruit flower! One thing I’ve noticed lately is that I have a passion. I want to inspire people to fall in love with stories, whether writing or reading…
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Sometimes, I’m Jealous…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Sometimes, I’m Jealous…Sometimes, I’m jealous of my 20yo kid. We are both diagnosed AuDHD, however he’s able to do things I was never able to do… I offer him jobs that could earn him money, some of the work some of my clients pay me for. These are skills he could learn, and he says no because…
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Review: Don’t Tell Me What to Do
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Don’t Tell Me What to DoAuthor: Renee Connoulty Category: Picture Book Publisher: Renee Connoulty Publication date: 8 May 2024 Blurb: Rose wants to learn and have fun, but when she feels like she’s being bossed around, she gets upset. Rose might yell or run away, even if she really wants to do what’s being asked. Rose can’t help how her brain reacts. Rose’s mum and…
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I am stories!
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: I am stories!I am a chameleon. I don’t know who I am. When people say ‘be authentic’, this makes no sense to me. My whole life, I have been told how to act, how to be. And if I don’t fit, I was teased or chastised, so I changed. I changed to fit the person or the…