Category: work-life balance

  • Going to Burnings

    Adelaide, it’s that time again. Don’t miss the Spineless Wonders Presents reading at the Wheatsheaf this coming Tuesday 13 August (7pm). Over here you’ll find a 10-minute radio spot where Caroline Reid will tell you all about it and Tamara Lee will reprise her magnificent performance of a hilarious story called Lamingtons from the last…

  • Magnificent Seven

    This is a talk I gave at the Emerging Writers Festival on the weekend, an event in which myself and the other Ambassadors were asked to give seven pieces of advice we wished we’d had when we were embryonic writerlings. A few people asked, so I’m sharing it here in full. Thanks EWF for inviting…

  • Wrestling crocs

    An article about internet addicted authors has been doing the rounds of the internet, where it is mainly read by authors who are addicted to articles that make them feel guilty for not writing ALL THE TIME. These kind of articles tend to use phrases like intense focus a lot. Apparently a writing desk is…