There’s something about …

. . . the wildness in the way she ran about on the sand, unfettered and free. This girl is a marvel, a joy to watch where she's normally so quiet. Everything she saw, everything she touched was new. No matter how many times her eyes had seen a wave crashing down into white foam,…

A book collection or a life?

Two years ago I lost all of my books. A twenty-something year old collection of fiction, non-fiction, collector's editions, first editions, science texts and my own thesis. Yesterday, I walked 7km to get this book so I could start it again. Ahhh . . . But why this one in particular? Well . . .…

The motivation of Nan.

It’s been a hot second .. or ten. It happens, I get sidetracked easily by things, sometimes I get stuck in my head, sometimes I just stare at the wall. This time though, well, all I can really say is ‘shit got real’. Again. I’ve been having feelings of real inadequacy, the crippling kind that…

The good advice…

This is so me, but my rp accounts. What practical tasks do you need to set yourself up as a professional writer? Off the top of my head, this question brings back to mind a recent conversation I had with another writer who is quite well published and has been gently prodding me to put…