Category: writing

  • National Year of Reading

    This is an edited version of my talk at Balaklava Library yesterday where I launched the National Year of Reading. It was a wonderful event and great to see so many book lovers in a small farming town in South Australia, engaged with reading and talking about books and writing. Fabulous to meet some aspiring…

  • It would have passed in any case

    Part of maturing as a writer is learning to wait. You learn to recognise the varieties of dread: to distinguish genuine judgement about the quality of a story from plain old back-to-work nerves. I am currently Waiting for Edits, which is usually a very anxious time, but I feel quite happy about the work ahead…

  • Scaffolds

    Things are winding down for the year, and it appears my brain has decided to knock off early, but before it does I have managed to come to the end of a first-ish draft of the new book. Granted, it is mostly scaffolding, but now at least I feel capable of building something. I was…