Month: February 2025

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Making Further Connections, Finding Possible Options

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At the moment, I’m in the middle of working on a variety of different projects, some of them relevant to this website, others not. But of course, as a writer and creative person, everything that happens in my life is connected with evetything else!

Today was a matter of writing a new form, working my way through it, and ending up with a suitable result. That feels like a good result, and I hope the actions that follow on from that will also be good ones.

Necessary plans – coming up with the needed words and ‘financials’, humph! The Words part of it, that comes more naturally to me, but those numbers, they’re definitely not so natural though.

But when you’re going into business, or upping the actual business you’ve been doing in an informal way, to turn it into something more formal, (and one hopes bringing more monetary rewards), well if you want the money for your business, you’ve got to get the business plan happening!

So that’s what I now have, a business plan for the business that is me – “Carolyn Cordon” Writer, Public Speaker, Art Installationist, and Stand Up Comedian! and the exciting thing that happened last night is that someone spoke to me last night about doing a talk at a Service Group, so my Public Speaking career is definitely happening.

I expect there isn’t likely to be several hundred dollars or so in recompense for my time, nothing like that. I suspect the more likely reward will be perhaps some chocolates, and not a lot else. At this stage, that’s not relevant to me, it’s all about getting the word, my words, out there, spoken!

Some of my published books at an event I’d attended, below:

With the new Business Plan I created, I’ve planned to do many more events such as was the one above, when I have my books on display, ready to be signed and sold!

Arts, meaning in life, Public Speaker, therapeutic writing, writing exercise

Being Normal Doesn’t Feel Like Me, And I’m Happy About That!

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The idea od being judged as ‘normal’ is of no interest to me, I don’t ever want to be ‘normal’ it feels so limiting! I’m a Word Nerd (a term I’ve only recently come across, and I know willingly embrace it! Words are the thing that draws all of the best things in my life togerther.

From reading and especially writing, to talking, and performing, and of course thinking, Words are what floats my boat! I love new words and ways to say things, I love intellingent conversation, listening to clever radio is my idea of the perfect driving companion, some of the time anyway.

Lots of people I know, ad those I don’t know (yet), might say the same, but I suspect I might take all of that in more unusual directions at times, that many others wouldn’t envision ever doing themselves.

The most obvious one is probably the Art Installation I Created, and am now Curating (a work in progress, and I’n expecting lots more actuon will be coming along on that one later on this year. And of course my desire to do work as a Stand Up Comedian is probably not what the average 60+ year old wants to take up doing …

But I have plans at foot, and hope to have a lot of fun doing this one for sure. The idea of performing as my persona of Nanna Carreau fills me with happiness! I offer humble thanks to Martin Christmas for his assistance with getthing the idea of this persona up and running!

That’s me dressed as Nanna Carreau on the left, the man on the right Len Dix is far better known than me (in motorsport circles especially)

This occasion was in Mallala, when there was an afternoon of classic cars when one of the roads was closed and the cars were there for people to see and learn about. So, with encouragement from someone I know, I dressed up and Nanna Carreau and had fun, and gave some of those in the crowd a bit of a giggle too!

Taking opportunities is something I’ve learnt to grasp with both hands, and am enjoying where some of it takes me! Soon, there may be something happening for me in the Barossa, if things pan out well for me, and if they don’t there will be other times, in other places!

Having books, and doing things with, and in libraries, that seems to be quite a good thing to do! And given the fact that I like talking to others, and I have books and thoughts, and a somewhat interesting life, well I think so anyway, I should be taking about it to others!

And who knows there may be book sales to come of doing that! Book sales and author talks, as well as doing writing related workshops are all classic ways for writers all around the world to earn money.

I’m a writer, and I know about these things. I’m just not that good (yet) at the marketing side of things. I’m working on that though, and I hope by the end of this year, I’ll be much better at it!

I’ve had a life, and I’m still having one, a different one in new ways, and I’m loving it! Not everyne would say the same, and I’m sad for those people. Perhaps a session with Nanna Carreau would cheer them up, and make them laugh!