If you live somewhere sunny and not in South Australia, you’re rather lucky. We’re currently experiencing one of those weird and rainy seasons that are entirely unlike the dry sometimes-warmth we usually have in Adelaide this time of year. I …
I’ve recently finished watching a reboot of a beloved show to many. I didn’t care for the show’s finale. I think I would have been much more content with the original show’s conclusion while holding hope for the characters’ futures, …
What did we do prior to mobiles? I have to admit, I don’t really think about it very much and if I do, I have flashbacks of taking landline phone calls while stuck in the room a phone happened to …
Do you ever wonder about the origin of words? To be honest, I don’t really think about it more than the next person. But when you do pause to think about it, rather than breeze past it like we do …
If you’re anything like me, you’ll have a song playing in your head on a constant basis, sometimes automatically and unnoticed, until it has focus again. This is especially true when I listen to a song in my car on …
This week I wrote 8,000 words, progressing the first draft of Book 3 to roughly 15,000 words. I also worked on my protagonists and minor characters more. So, now I’m not predominantly focusing on the plot. I know what characters …
Have you ever wondered how facts pop into existence? Some theories on reality suggest that it’s largely based on perception. What we accept as the truth is our perception of that very truth. To confuse matters further in one way …
Have you noticed how we generally rely on a protagonist’s memories in fiction to give us a full picture of who they are, and where they came from – their back story? Whether we use flashbacks once the reader cares …
You’ve probably noticed by now that my books, at least my first two, take place in the late 1990s to early 2000s. ‘Why?’ You might ask. A few reasons come to mind… The first and more obvious reason is that …
I’ve often written about the effects that Covid has had on our lives – no more so than us spending the majority of our weekdays working from home. Our pets love it, don’t they? They’re so used to having us …