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		<title>a week at varuna</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This short introduces a new treatment for the crop of videos I&#8217;ve been cultivating over the last couple of years. Lately I&#8217;ve been feeling the need to create a seperate place to indulge my video fettish free of the literary stuff. So with no better ideas, I created a new blog: One hundred cups of [...]


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		<title>library time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had left it a week but today I felt compelled to go visit the State Library of Victoria &#8211; often described as a quiet haven within the bustling CBD. In contrast to the chaotic roar of the city streets, the delicate sounds of the library are a real treat. The silence seems to clarify [...]


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		<title>this is shyness book trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Paul from All Things Considered for adding to my collection of book trailers with this new one for Leanne Halls&#8216; novel This is Shyness, which launched a few weeks ago at Readings in Carlton. The combination of stylised visuals, music and text really delivers an emotional punch and perfectly suits the young adult [...]


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		<title>goodbye perth</title>
		<link>http://www.markwelker.com/2010/08/goodbye-perth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In less than 24 hours, in fact probably by the time you read this, I&#8217;ll have abandoned my home of the last 31 years and struck out for a brand new postcode in a new state. Yes, I&#8217;m uprooting my well established roots and heading to Melbourne. In my &#8216;see you I&#8217;m outta here&#8217; email to [...]


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		<title>wordplay: dorsal</title>
		<link>http://www.markwelker.com/2010/08/wordplay-dorsal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh off the plane from Varuna with a shiny new word from an incredible book I ought to have read a long time ago. Full run down on the week at Varuna very soon&#8230; dorsal a. of, pertaining to, or situated at the back, or dorsum. The Lisbon girls were thirteen (cecilia), and fourteen (Lux), [...]


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		<title>a brief hiatus</title>
		<link>http://www.markwelker.com/2010/08/a-brief-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow morning I head off for a week&#8217;s residency at Varuna Writer&#8217;s House; a writer&#8217;s retreat nestled in Sydney&#8217;s blue mountains region. I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled to get the chance to stay, but I am a little nervous about how it will all turn out. My last self imposed stint of creative exile was tough work. [...]


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		<title>on flying</title>
		<link>http://www.markwelker.com/2010/07/on-flying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A solo business trip away can be a meditative experience. The focal point &#8211; a meeting, workshop, job interview &#8211; draws you out of the everyday processes and sends you on a structured trajectory for self reflection. On a solo business trip you become as close to a single atom you have ever been in [...]


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		<title>#writing: creative audit</title>
		<link>http://www.markwelker.com/2010/07/writing-creative-audit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I discovered daytum &#8211; an online dashboarding system that lets you track, simply and quickly, just about anything you can think of. Figuring I was about due for some creative procrastination, I got to applying daytum to my writing habits. I thought it might be interesting to look back at the stories [...]


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		<title>#coffeebreak: seagulls in kalasatama</title>
		<link>http://www.markwelker.com/2010/07/coffeebreak-seagulls-in-kalasatama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Was very pleased to hear the other day that Dan Simpson entered one of his first #coffeebreak challenges into a recent short fiction writing competition and got shortlisted. And all from a spontaneous creative prompt! Here is today&#8217;s #coffeebreak challenge for all those still playing. Write for 10 minutes against the picture below. As always, [...]


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		<title>#photos: the dark night</title>
		<link>http://www.markwelker.com/2010/06/photos-the-dark-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably something I say every year, but I really can&#8217;t remember being this cold. The temperature has really plummeted here in Perth over the last two weeks so much so that for the first time long johns have made an appearance on my winter wardrobe menu. On the plus side, when it&#8217;s cold the [...]


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