Parental guidance recommended I’m officially in a slump. The original title of this post, back when I was initially planning on writing it about a week ago, was supposed to be something like “I’m back, baby!” or something similarly enthusiastic. But honestly, I just don’t have it in me right now. Things have been, for
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‘The First Five Pages’ by Noah Lukeman — review and summary

I’ve already reviewed Stephen King’s On Writing (here) and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird (here). The third book that makes up this holy trinity of writing bibles is Noah Lukeman’s The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile. As the title suggests, The First Five Pages is all about how not to get rejected
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Movie Review: Pitch Perfect (2012)

Note: Huge shoutout to Sydney artist Hubert Widjaya for providing the wonderful artwork for this post. See below for a casual chat we had about the film following my review. I’m not ordinarily a fan of musicals, especially ones that look like they are riding the wave of a popular trend to make a quick
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Tim Ho Wan: Ultra Cheap Michelin Star Restaurant!

Usually a Michelin Star means a restaurant has been given a free licence to charge prices through the roof because people are going to go anyway. Not Tim Ho Wan (which literally means “Add Good Luck” in Chinese), which is well known for being one of, if not the cheapest Michelin Star awarded restaurant in
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