Category: Blog Post

  • Back. . .sort of

    So its er. . .been a while. Again. It’s certainly been a long year or two, with a bunch of things going on that didn’t include writing. Some medical, some family, some career. While a little writing did get done, I think it’s fair to say I’ve deleted almost as…

  • My ANZAC Day

    This might seem a little late, but after putting up a post on my Facebook site (one that was meant to be about two lines long, but somehow kept going), I started to get some calls, emails, and messages from people who could relate. People whose emotions around ANZAC Day…

  • 5 Ways to Avoid/Recover From Burnout

    On a lighter note from last time. In 2017, I read about ten books. Far below what I would usually like to go through, though to be honest, my reading had been decreasing for a while. So in 2018, I applied to be on an Aurealis panel, and as a…

  • Our Omelas

    Our Omelas

    NOTE: Bit of a ramble here. Basically I had to get my thoughts out following the tragedy. Hopefully they make sense. Speculative fiction has some strange ways of impacting real life. Sometimes it’s an immediate identification with a character, or a setting invoking wonder beyond anything we as readers have…

  • My first SupaNova article!

    Not much of a post as such, but I am supa-excited to have my first article published with Supanova. It’s nothing fancy, and I already picked up a typo (winced so hard my colleagues thought I was in pain), but here it is:

  • Prologues!

    Prologues!

    Why am I writing on prologues? Because I LOVE PROLOGUES! A few years ago, I made a horrible discovery; there are MONSTERS out there! REAL PEOPLE who DON’T READ THE PROLOGUES! Okay, so they may not be monsters (at least no more than I am for being one of those…

  • Pitching!

    Bit more of a personal update today, as I’ve neglected the blogging for a couple of weeks now. Basically, I’ve been a bit quiet with the writing due to work picking up somewhat (as in, the other work. The one that enables many wonderful things like eating, but tends to…

  • Six Things I Learnt From Writing Experimental Literature

    Six Things I Learnt From Writing Experimental Literature

    If you’re first question is something along the lines of “What the heck is experimental literature?” then you’re on the same level I was six months ago. That question was quickly expanded with “and how the heck am I going to pass this class?” For context, this was my second…

  • Top 5 Tips I’ve Received As A Newbie (so far)

    I’ve been writing for eight years now. In writer terms, that could mean eight books for the lucky/hardworking types (these two aspects seem to go hand in hand), or it could mean half way through a first draft (which in no way indicates lack of work). In short, time does…

  • Why Speculative Fiction Matters

    You know that person who once they start talking about a topic, they don’t shut up? That’s me when it comes to speculative fiction. I love it. New worlds, situations impossible in our current existence, imaginative exploitations of tech – it’s fantastic (no pun intended). But it is essentially a…