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Setting Inspiration: Outback Sunset

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Abandoned homestead in Burra, South Australia. Photo by Ilya Genkin
Colourful sunset over an abandoned homestead in Burra, South Australia. Photo by Ilya Genkin

139 thoughts on “Setting Inspiration: Outback Sunset”

    1. I’m being blitzed? Yay!! Thank you!
      NaNo isn’t so bad, when you consider it’s “only” 1667 words per day. I know life can get in the way, but it’s the best feeling ever when you push through and win against the odds! Happy writing!

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    1. Thank you!
      It was scary the first time round, but it’s only 1667 words per day. Sometimes you might only write 500 but then you’ll have a weekend and write 5000 and it evens out again. Camp NaNo can be even less as you set your own goals.

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  7. That is one heck of a sunset. Well done on winning NaNo2014; my effort is out for beta readers now, to make sure the plot and characters are okay before I redraft.
    Happy Blitz Day, too.

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  9. Now that’s what I call a sunrise! Congrats on NaNo. I’ve never participated myself (not built to write that way), but I admire those who do…especially those who succeed.

    As you may have guessed…you’re being BLITZED! Enjoy. 🙂

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  13. Wow, love the picture. I participated in NaNoWriMo last Nov, but fell sort of the 50k goal…well a lot short, but I learned a lot during that month. Congratulations for winning NaNo and Happy Blitz day!! 😀

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    1. Participating is more important than winning NaNoWriMo! I got lucky with my stories wordcount-wise, but I love the whole NaNo community and setting those goals. Actually taking a month to really focus on writing! Well done to you!!

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  15. Wow! That’s a beautiful scene and sunset!!!

    And I also smiled because of the way it weirdly tied in with my own blog, lol. I’m doing a “Create52” thing (52 weeks of posting creative output on my blog every Monday in 2015), and this week I shared some music called “Back in the Outback” and a poem call “Out Back”. I like it when cool synchronicity happens like that. 🙂

    Happy Blitz Day!!!

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    1. I’ve worked as a Jillaroo in Australia before and the Outback is my favourite environment on earth. I’d be happy living out there and it has inspired quite a lot of my writing! That’s freakishly cool, I guess you’re just meant to write about it then!

      Create52 sounds like an amazing challenge! Good luck!

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  29. Happy Blitz Day! You may not have known we were coming, but you sure put on a good show. The photo is just amazing. It makes me want to write a story set there, so you did a fantastic job of being inspiring. Hope you enjoy your day.

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    1. I had no idea at all! I only realised when I got a message at work that I’d received a comment and it was signed “Happy Blitz Day!” 🙂 Glad I could be of help! I actually wrote a short story titled “The House Out West” which was inspired by this picture. Have a lovely day!

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  30. Beautiful picture!

    I did NaNo officially for the first time this past November, and won at just a hair’s breadth of 75,000 words, with the book not finished yet. Had I known you only need to write 50,000 words, and not write a book complete at that length, I would’ve been participating a long time ago!

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    1. Thanks!

      Haha, yeah I was a bit confused about that the first time I participated as well! Congratulations on winning NaNo!! Last year I kept writing until January and ended up with 103k words. Whoops. 😀

      Thank you for stopping by today!

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    1. Thanks! It is so worth the trip, Australia is a beautiful country. I was lucky enough to get to go for about 2 months in 2007 and travel through the country and volunteer on farms out there. I’ve never felt so at home!

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  40. OHHHH that photo is GORGEOUS!!! Sunsets and sunrises are some of my favorite metaphors to use in my manuscripts, and I also love photographing them. If you’re on Instagram, I’ve posted a bunch at @gmciocca. Happy Blitz Day!

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  46. Happy Blitz Day!!! As for NaNo, I’ve done it every year for several years, but this is the first year I wasn’t able to finish what I started. I’m slowly working on the one I started in November. It’ll get finished soon, I hope!

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