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Writer - memoir, essay, and non-fiction Lived in 🇨🇱🇦🇺🇬🇧🇮🇳🇭🇰🇸🇬🇯🇵 Worked in academia and music TCK https://fernandogros.com/blog/ Made in Chile, grown in Australia, polished in Japan
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The past couple of months were hard. Time flew by and passed slowly. Like a discombobulating vortex. Now on a plane again. But I feel like I’ve forgotten how to fly. The luxury feels unfamiliar. I’m doing my usual airport rituals but they feel odd. Like meeting a friend you haven’t seen in years.

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Listening to a podcast that's reviewing Strictly Ballroom. The hosts keep calling Baz Luhrmann "Buzz" Luhrmann. And it's never not funny. What's less funny is how they missed the role race and ethnicity play in the film. It's strident multiculturalism. And how White supremacy stifles creativity.

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"Someone asked me..." No dude, no one asked you. Or at least, that's what your readers are likely to assume. That move might feel like a good way to set up a piece of social content. But the lack of detail and context makes it feel questionable. Like a bad business book anecdote. Get specific.

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Obsidian for knowledge. Apple Notes for information.

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Arrived in Adelaide on April 16. Finally finished unpacking my suitcase tonight. Must easily be a record for the slowest unpack ever. Glad I was here to help my father. Thankful he's well down the road to recovery. The past month has been a long one. Tomorrow I start packing my suitcase for Tokyo.

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History always begins as gossip.

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These kinds of articles are so narrowly focussed. Social Media doesn't exist as a client for American political discourse. Twitter at its best was overwhelmingly not US-centric. People around the world have other things to talk about.

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Today's Japanese Lesson was an exhausting delight. I've had to cancel lessons over the last month while caring for my father. Today I managed to squeeze a lesson in. I was very slow. Grinding through the exercises. But, I was delighted to be exercising that part of my brain again.

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Private tutoring is a $1.4 billion industry in Singapore

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Watched Mountainhead. It's a brilliant little satirical film. A time capsule for this moment when politics has been captured by the Broligarchy. The film also does a beautiful job of ridiculing online tech discourse; its violence, rage, and weird undercooked obsessions with history and philosophy.

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Thrilled to be shortlisted for the Deep Creek Fellowship Residency and extremely thankful to Writers SA and Matilda Bookshop for recognising my memoir project. This is such a huge encouragement! www.instagram.com/p/DKYUjlbzgE...

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Emotions are meant to be experienced, not controlled.

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There should be a word for people who keep trying to finish your sentences even though they get it wrong at every turn.

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"And here’s my one cardinal piece of advice if you’re planning your second, third or fourth trip back to Japan: Return to some of the places you’ve already visited... something magical happens when you start investing in the spots you already know."

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I’d forgotten that before we were called Generation X we were briefly called Baby Busters. Stumbled on an old book by George Barna called Baby Busters: The Disillusioned Generation and I now feel compelled to drop everything and read it.

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Trying to write while looking after my father is a lot like trying to write in the early days of being a stay at home dad. I just throw words at the screen. Sometimes I come back to Scrivener and there's just a title and nothing else. Or scattering of unconnected phrases. Shadows of thoughts.

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Going to embark on a little personal project in July. There are 37 pieces in The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story. I'm going to write a short craft essay (approx 500 words) on what each one has to teach me about writing with style.

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Watching what's happening with mass deportation raids and remembering that only a few years ago a common argument online was that Latin Americans were basically White and thus benefited from White Privilege. Wow how that take aged badly.

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Taylor Swift wins again.

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