CJWunsch, April 2nd, 2012 The capital of the Derwent Valley is often given the tag of Historic New Norfolk, and that’s true. But that’s not all there is.
via Historic New Norfolk: Expect More!.
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CJWunsch, April 2nd, 2012 The editor of Think Tasmania, a tourism blog designed to promote our lovely state, took me on as a staff member not too long ago! I now have a regular slot on Mondays for all things Tasmanian. This of course reminded me that once again I have let the general business of working/parenting/eating/sleeping completely overwhelm the ‘writing’ that I promised myself I was going to do more of this year.
I’ve also been working a lot more with the camera… I’d better considering the new one my husband allowed me to purchase is worth somewhat more than our car (In fairness, it’s not like we’re driving a mazzerati, but still…)
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CJWunsch, January 25th, 2012 Watching the Walking Dead has put me in mind of the Zombie Apocalypse. It seems to me that the first question you have to answer about your zombies, is are they fast, or are they slow. I sortof like the idea that they can get up the same speed as a regular person, with compensations made for the fact that their muscles are full of coagulated blood, and their brain probably isn’t up to high-tech motion calculation. In short, decently fast but damn clumsy. Sloppy direction changes and a toddlers tendency to trip on the smallest thing.
Then (as was just pointed out to me) you have to establish how virulent it is. Is it airborne (ie, everyone already HAS it so all you have to do is die and hello it’s zombie time) or do you have to be bitten? Is a scratch enough to infect? How about getting blood all over you? For me, this is purely a point of plot clarity, I don’t mind much either wa. I think it’s important to make a choice, but which one you make isn’t that big a deal as long as you stick to it once you make it. There’s always the ‘Wrath of God’ option – from there you’ve got a whole bunch of other questions, like ‘why?’, ‘for how long?’ and most importantly, how much more mythology are you going to build in to make it all work? For right now, I’m going fungus, mostly because I read about these ants that got zombified by a fungus… very creepy.
Next we want to cover point of origin. Having ruled out supernatural whatnot’s though, that leaves us with natural and engineered. Now, personally, I tend to find the awesome power of nature to be far more frightening that anything we can develop in a lab. A lot of times the temptation is to put the blame on man, to lay at man’s feet all the worst things… but the truth is that what nature can do so belittles us that we might as well be fluffy bunnies.
So, in summation; my Zombies pretty spry for a dead guy, not winning any coordination prizes though. The infection is fungal, in keeping with the natural version (seriously messed up S) they tend to be driven to action that will spread the infection (they try to be someplace so when they explode, they infect a lot of people). Lastly, it is a natural evolution of the fungal infection that the ans get and is human specific – like the ant version is ant specific (I’m pretty sure that if it can infect anything, we’re so screwed there’s no hope of a successful outcome).
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CJWunsch, December 18th, 2011 The Blog Think-Tasmania has published my article on the National Organic Week Consumer Choice Awards (wow what a mouthful!) The lovely Tania, has been wonderfully supportive of my efforts, to the point of actually encouraging me to do a few more reports on local events.
For anyone interested in what Tasmania has to offer, I encourage you to have a look! Whether you’re a local, or thinking of stopping by for a visit, there is always something new, something different and quite possibly something you’ve driven past a million times and never noticed. If you also wanted to drop a note on that article of mine and wax poetical about how good it is, that’d be great too!
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CJWunsch, December 12th, 2011 
Hmmm....
Who could possibly have been sneaky enough to climb up onto the bench, onto the stove and steal the last, cold sausage we’d been saving for Talie…?
Oh butter wouldn't melt...
Some time later, said sausage was rediscovered, half eaten, under the fridge…
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CJWunsch, December 10th, 2011 I’m procrastinating terribly, right now I’m supposed to be writing the Fractured Fractal Christmas special, instead I’m sifting through IMDB looking for the actors I’d personally choose to play the characters, should anyone ever be interested in making such a thing. This is what I have so far.
Brendan Malone, my big strapping soon to be uncontrollable beast I feel would best be played by Kieth Hamilton Cobb. He’s got the look, and I’ve seen him do enough different stuff that I’m sure he can play it. He also looks like he could be a big of a flirt, and Brendan is nothing if not a wildly inappropriate flirt.
Vincent ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal; this one’s really hard. I wanted originally to say Benedict Cumberbatch because of course he did such a good job with Sherlock, which was a similar role. The only problem is that Vincent is noticeably more beefy than that, also Vincent is good looking in a more classic way. While Benedict is undeniably attractive, it’s in a somewhat less conventional way. I’ve settled on Ryan Gosling for a couple of reasons. He’s got the look I imagine for Vincent, as well as being physically imposing – but he’s also capable of being very cold looking and methodical. I think he could make a lot of the things Vincent has to do look natural, whereas with other actors it might seem like he was ‘acting’ empty rather than being empty.
Garynt Williams is a complex kind of man, capable of being one person one minute and an almost entirely different person the next. I ran through all my usual suspects for something like this, names I’ve worshiped since I was a kid. Patrick Stewart, Ian Holm, even Sean Connery! They call to mind a certain august-ness though, which I don’t think Garynt has. Even at his most powerful, he’s still a relatively unassuming man, and in his most towering rages he’s quiet and intense rather than huge and loud. I like Hugo Weaving for him. I’m Australian though so I might be a little bit biased.
Emily and Edward (Ferret and Shove). For this one, I know everyone is going to think I’m mad, but I can’t help it… Emma Watson and Elijah Wood. They both have the kind of adorable innocence that the characters require, and I’m sure they can be made to look enough like each other without too much work.
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CJWunsch, December 10th, 2011 … in every authors life, when they have a kind of nervous breakdown. Something goes wrong somewhere in the brain… maybe the baby screamed at a magical pitch, maybe dinner had botulism toxin in it? Who knows? The point is, it seems I’ve gone and thrown the first installment of Fractured Fractal out into the internet on Amazon.com, for the mind-blowing, early retirement price of $0.99.
Due to some technical glitching on my end last night I haven’t been able to get the cover image posted yet. Hopefully that will be fixed sometime today. You may all need to excuse me while I go a-hyperventilating for a while in anticipation of a swarm of reviews so negative that they not only put me off writing forever but also make me sterile.
UPDATE:
A nice little e-mail from Amazon informed me that my author page is up and running… oh dear…
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CJWunsch, November 10th, 2011 It hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for accomplishing things. A friend came to stay for a few days and then we all got sick. Now my ZUMBA classes have all been shifted around so I don’t have as many (which is making me very sad) and all in all it’s just been a bit poopy.
The 50day point is on Saturday. I’ve decided to forgive myself, rest and be cool until then, and redouble my efforts for the second half.
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CJWunsch, October 28th, 2011 
The second bed is all put together and the bottom stuffed with old mulch. We’re going to struggle a little with ‘clean’ dirt for this one, since we used up most of our supply on that one on the right. Still, we’ve got compost mulching down as we speak so hopefully there will be enough there to be getting on with. Oh joy of joys, we found WORMS today!
Tomorrow is my little Halloween party, which looks at this point like it’ll mostly consist of sci/fi nerds squeeing into a low orbit over new TV shows and playing battleshots! Stay tuned for photo’s!
Also I have to report that my 100days challenge is still going strong! Haven’t missed a day yet!
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CJWunsch, October 25th, 2011 
The first of... a few...
Firstly, awesome husband is awesome! He came outside (with a minimum of complaining) and knocked together the first of my new garden beds today!
Of course now we are just about out of usable dirt, so I’m not sure how we’re going to fill the rest of them. We’re composting like mad fiends at the moment bit I don’t know how quickly that’ll go in this weather.
It’s nice to look over and see something that’s making real progress!
My tomato’s are doing well, growing fast looking nice and healthy. I’m really keen to dry some of my own for preserve this year. I love my sun-dried tomato’s!
This is Pip... my daughter has become enamoured of snails, god help me.
My tomato's doing well!
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