how hard can it be – A Dark Feathered Art

27 March 2026

NZ NaPoWriMo – it’s on again!

Yes, because many many many people have been asking me, with a mixture of hope and desperation in their eyes, if I’m going to be running this again … once again I will be running an NZ NaPoWriMo season. There are loads of free sites hosting NaPoWriMo online, so you very definitely don’t need to …

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9 March 20186 March 2018

Absquatulate or Bust

I recently got my notification from the folks at CV2 that it is time once again to sign up for their annual Two-Day Poem Contest. Yep, that one. The one where I had to write a poem using (among other words) absquatulate, and copacetic. (You know it’s bad when ‘bombastic’ scarcely rates a mention.) If …

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