Category: Writing

  • Two great free webstat programs

    Time to give some recognition to the kind folks at WordPress; they’re always working tirelessly to keep everything running smoothly for their bloggers. Great job, guys. :-) I’ve been very impressed with WordPress since I signed up a year ago. I’ve had experience with webhosting before (I still host www.sci-fimonthly.com), but really it’s been more…

  • Some changes

    Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve updated this blog… I do have a good reason, though. Been busy finishing Shards of Babylon (almost there now… though I said that last year!). And I’ve also been busy starting a new writers group in Bondi Junction; a lot of work getting things started, but should be fun…

  • 5 favourite quotes from my fiction

    5) If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. – George Eliot. (For the Light of the Stars)4) To Romans I set no…

  • Modern Myth

    Well, I’m still working on Shards of Babylon. Should be finished soon… or at least as “finished” as any story of mine ever is. In the meantime I’ve started planning a few short stories to work on later this year. One I’m looking forward to is The Last Giant. It’s going to be a bit…

  • 5 post-apocalyptic books everyone should read

    5) A Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M. Miller4) Oryx and CrakeMargaret Atwood3) On the BeachNevil Shute2) Alas, Babylon!Pat Frank1) Earth AbidesGeorge R. Stewart

  • Swordbird

    Read about this book in The Sun-Herald last week. I’ll have to check it out. Nancy Yi Fan was inspired by some great books – Gone with the Wind, Johnny Tremain -, and she’s used those ideas in interesting ways; more of a fantasy epic. What’s amazing is that she’s only 13, a real literary…

  • 5 things a writer should know

    This is the first in a series of fun articles I’m writing. It’s called Fives, and is simply 5 things you might not know or might find interesting! I’ll be posting 1 or 2 a week, so here’s the first one: 5 things a writer should know… 5) Reading is important.It’s something a lot of…

  • When did rehab become the "in thing"?

    There’s been something about Britney Spears in the news every day this past week; feels like it too. I don’t want to ask if anyone even cares anymore, but aren’t the media going too far with this? It can’t help someone who is self-destructing to see every second of it being analysed on TV. And…

  • When did rehab become the “in thing”?

    There’s been something about Britney Spears in the news every day this past week; feels like it too. I don’t want to ask if anyone even cares anymore, but aren’t the media going too far with this? It can’t help someone who is self-destructing to see every second of it being analysed on TV. And…

  • Different generational views

    Just finished reading an interesting essay by David Malouf called Made in England. It was published in 2003 as a Quarterly Essay, examining our relationship with Britain and how it’s changed throughout history. Malouf’s thesis is that Australia was created as a second England left to follow its own direction, and that’s why he believes…