Everyone is related to the world through something. I through words… before I stopped writing, words had become treacherous and untrustworthy to me….
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My Love/Hate Relationship with Australian Fiction (I)
Last year I was invited by Westerly to write their annual fiction review. New Australian books would be delivered to me, absolutely pristine,…
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The life that produces writing can’t be written about. It is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below…
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The Perils of Applying for Writing Grants
It’s no secret that writing a book takes time. A lot of time. For me, around 5 years. Or that it pays badly….
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Sheltered like an insect among the fallen bodies of ancestors, he huddled in the eye sockets of a mountainous skull and became part…
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The question any novel is trying to answer is, Is life worth living? That’s a major question, a huge question, but the best…
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Why Writers Need Marketing Plans
At the moment I’m in the process of applying for a grant from the West Australian Department of Culture & the Arts (DCA),…
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Duties Other Than Writing
My son’s teacher has a day each week reserved for DOTT – Duties Other Than Teaching. I imagine she gets busy with the…
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Remembering How to Write
I wrote my first two novels in longhand, with old-fashioned pencils on scrap paper. But The Arkwas a book of digital communications. It…
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Not Sufficiently Enthusiastic
My first novel A New Map of the Universe was published by UWA Publishing. For a first novel, by an unknown author, with…
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