Helen G
@canberrabells.bsky.social
Canberra. Aspiring author - currently writing literary historical fiction set in Melbourne at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Also in my cats, books and Taylor Swift era.
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Helen G
@canberrabells.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I started my novel in May 23 & quickly churned out 40-50k of a draft but knew it was way off base. Not just a messy first draft but the direction was all wrong. The next year I stated several times, getting in deeper. I now understand what I was doing. I was reminding myself how to write fiction.
I am newly arrived in Virginia. I watched about two minutes of Fox News just because I could. It was horrific. Worse than a hate watch. Never again.
October 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I am newly arrived in Virginia. I watched about two minutes of Fox News just because I could. It was horrific. Worse than a hate watch. Never again.
Guess what? I love The Life of a Showgirl. To celebrate it, I got nails
October 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Guess what? I love The Life of a Showgirl. To celebrate it, I got nails
I’m celebrating joy this week as a Swiftie with new music about to fill my heart and soul and will spare very little thought for those who want make me feel small for this.
September 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I’m celebrating joy this week as a Swiftie with new music about to fill my heart and soul and will spare very little thought for those who want make me feel small for this.
So funny and clever of Chappell Roan to use Saskatchewan as a rhyme. #thesubway
August 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
So funny and clever of Chappell Roan to use Saskatchewan as a rhyme. #thesubway
Look I’m as attached to the 1995 Pride and Prejudice as the next Austen fan but if we’re going go to shit on every new adaptation, we have to remember that the 1995 version was new for the fans of previous versions and look how that turned out?
July 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Look I’m as attached to the 1995 Pride and Prejudice as the next Austen fan but if we’re going go to shit on every new adaptation, we have to remember that the 1995 version was new for the fans of previous versions and look how that turned out?
A milestone. Submitting the first two long laboured over chapters of my novel to a first assessment process tomorrow. Thousands and thousands of words, many drafts, I feel ready for this teaser process/next step.
June 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A milestone. Submitting the first two long laboured over chapters of my novel to a first assessment process tomorrow. Thousands and thousands of words, many drafts, I feel ready for this teaser process/next step.
Every now and then I remember that Folklore: Long Pond exists as an album and not just a film and I’m so happy. It’s a great soundtrack to my writing sessions.
June 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Every now and then I remember that Folklore: Long Pond exists as an album and not just a film and I’m so happy. It’s a great soundtrack to my writing sessions.
Stanley Tucci will, I hope, spend the rest of his life seeking out Italian food and making the most watchable tv.
June 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Stanley Tucci will, I hope, spend the rest of his life seeking out Italian food and making the most watchable tv.
Epic writing day. Over 2000 words and a whole new chapter. I’m getting deeper under the skin of my protagonist and it feels right. Today’s main action was a critical, pivotal scene that moves the story forward and it felt good.
May 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Epic writing day. Over 2000 words and a whole new chapter. I’m getting deeper under the skin of my protagonist and it feels right. Today’s main action was a critical, pivotal scene that moves the story forward and it felt good.
I shared my novel’s prologue with a trusted reader after two years of drafting and crafting the novel as a whole. It landed. She picked up the clues, asked the right questions, critiqued the things showed me parts I hadn’t seen. So grateful. The creative process is soul bearing.
April 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I shared my novel’s prologue with a trusted reader after two years of drafting and crafting the novel as a whole. It landed. She picked up the clues, asked the right questions, critiqued the things showed me parts I hadn’t seen. So grateful. The creative process is soul bearing.
Writing is a hard art form. If you’re emotionally out of whack it can really affect the work. And not in a ‘the work will be darker way.’ Just in a ‘I achieved nothing today’ way..
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March 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Writing is a hard art form. If you’re emotionally out of whack it can really affect the work. And not in a ‘the work will be darker way.’ Just in a ‘I achieved nothing today’ way..
Today I found the origin of a character’s experience. The way she deals with things later in life. Those moments where a puzzle piece reveals itself are the magic this process is built on.
February 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Today I found the origin of a character’s experience. The way she deals with things later in life. Those moments where a puzzle piece reveals itself are the magic this process is built on.
Sure as a swiftie I’d have loved to see Taylor win more at the Grammys but this was a big year for so many great artists and Beyoncé deserved AOTY hands down. I’ve had Cowboy Carter on repeat since it was released. It’s epic in scale and ambition and just so perfect.
February 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Sure as a swiftie I’d have loved to see Taylor win more at the Grammys but this was a big year for so many great artists and Beyoncé deserved AOTY hands down. I’ve had Cowboy Carter on repeat since it was released. It’s epic in scale and ambition and just so perfect.
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Highly amused to discover that folk are now referring to Teslas as "Swasticars"
January 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Highly amused to discover that folk are now referring to Teslas as "Swasticars"
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Hero.
Hero.
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Hero.
Hero.
Dipped my toe back in the novel writing pond today after weeks of household injury, surgery and general depression. People who say depression fuels creativity confuse me. It doesn’t do that here. It switches off the tap.
January 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Dipped my toe back in the novel writing pond today after weeks of household injury, surgery and general depression. People who say depression fuels creativity confuse me. It doesn’t do that here. It switches off the tap.
I wanted to write 20,000 words of this draft in December and just after 5pm today scrivener clocked over. I’m going for a long walk then drinking a lot of wine.
December 28, 2024 at 6:12 AM
I wanted to write 20,000 words of this draft in December and just after 5pm today scrivener clocked over. I’m going for a long walk then drinking a lot of wine.
I’ve started clearing and sorting my study. I already know it’s going to take longer than I thought.
Future me will be so glad though. Might start day drinking to make it more fun…..
Future me will be so glad though. Might start day drinking to make it more fun…..
December 27, 2024 at 1:28 AM
I’ve started clearing and sorting my study. I already know it’s going to take longer than I thought.
Future me will be so glad though. Might start day drinking to make it more fun…..
Future me will be so glad though. Might start day drinking to make it more fun…..
A fractured shoulder in the family wasn’t on our end of 2024 bingo card.
December 16, 2024 at 9:32 AM
A fractured shoulder in the family wasn’t on our end of 2024 bingo card.
To the dude who told me all that was wrong with the premise of my novel this evening, yeah thanks
December 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM
To the dude who told me all that was wrong with the premise of my novel this evening, yeah thanks
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Dutton claims you can’t be united as a country if you have more than one flag.
Dude, our actual flag has another flag in it.
Dude, our actual flag has another flag in it.
December 11, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Dutton claims you can’t be united as a country if you have more than one flag.
Dude, our actual flag has another flag in it.
Dude, our actual flag has another flag in it.
One of my favourite authors, @charlottewood.bsky.social talks about writers needing to be comfortable with uncertainty. For 18mths I’ve drafted and redrafted and this week found a character that has the clearest voice and perspective. I think I’ve found the narrator of my story. I love her.
December 13, 2024 at 10:49 AM
One of my favourite authors, @charlottewood.bsky.social talks about writers needing to be comfortable with uncertainty. For 18mths I’ve drafted and redrafted and this week found a character that has the clearest voice and perspective. I think I’ve found the narrator of my story. I love her.
I started #NANoWriMo on 3 November and I have a day job and so was never going to make the full 50k word target but this far in I’m going pretty well!
November 22, 2024 at 6:52 AM
I started #NANoWriMo on 3 November and I have a day job and so was never going to make the full 50k word target but this far in I’m going pretty well!
I was in a fish shop today and I looked at a tub of live blue swimmer crabs. Their claws were tied shut and their eyes all blinked at me. I found that really sad.
November 22, 2024 at 4:42 AM
I was in a fish shop today and I looked at a tub of live blue swimmer crabs. Their claws were tied shut and their eyes all blinked at me. I found that really sad.
About a year ago I wrote a line in my draft novel that stood out to me. It didn’t fit in back then but I lifted it out and saved it, knowing it would fit somewhere, some time. Tonight I found the place. Drafting is so fun.
November 20, 2024 at 10:35 AM
About a year ago I wrote a line in my draft novel that stood out to me. It didn’t fit in back then but I lifted it out and saved it, knowing it would fit somewhere, some time. Tonight I found the place. Drafting is so fun.