MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE AUTHOR… OR DOES IT? I’m occasionally asked what I like to listen to when I write. Well… there’s no easy answer to that. More often than not, in fact, when I’m creating new fiction, I don’t have any music playing at all. Can you imagine how[…]
I Remember When I Was Young… 1 When I was young I spent many enjoyable hours in my sandpit playing toy soldiers. I was a bit of a loner – painfully shy, terribly insecure and introverted – so immersing into a scene where I pulled the strings of life and[…]
I can barely believe it, folks, but it turns out that I have been eating chocolate wrong my whole life! I learnt years ago that there is a chasm between good and bad chocolate. You know that horrible, cheap compound crap that Easter eggs are made from, or the cheap[…]
Ever since I was a kid I wanted to write a novel… I would sneak into Mum and Dad’s bedroom when they were out and tap away on Mum’s typewriter, inevitably getting told off for “wasting” paper and the typewriter ribbon. Fast forward about forty years, and I have a[…]
CREATIVE INSECURITY IS NORMAL! ENCOURAGING KIDS SHOULD BE TOO! Driving my daughter to school this morning, she said to me, “I’d like to write a story about a wizard, Daddy, but I’m not good enough.” I was aghast – horrified. I’ve wanted to be a writer since before I was[…]
35 YEARS SCHOOL REUNION! This year marks thirty-five years since I graduated high school. THIRTY-FIVE BLOODY YEARS. That is two thirds of my life ago (67% – so I did learn something there)! And this Saturday, seventy or so ex-students are going to converge on a suburban pub for a[…]
The Phil Collins Rule Back in the days I had a hard and fast PHIL COLLINS RULE. It was simple, really: If you hear Phil Collins come on the radio or a CD, you turned it off, asked whoever’s place you were at to turn it off, or left the[…]
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS, HUH – WHAT’S ALL THAT ABOUT? I really don’t want to write a lot about politics here – this website & blog is about my writing (more on that in the next couple of weeks!) BUT this week’s disgraceful state of affairs in Parliament is worthy of comment.[…]
My First Gig The first concert I went to was… ABBA! Not bad for a rock n’ roller, eh. It was at the Perth Entertainment Centre, 10 March, 1977 – their first of five shows in Perth over three days. The concert started at 6pm, and another was scheduled for[…]
Hello, Welcome, Velkommen, Bienvenue, G’day… This is my blog. Never really blogged before, but I’m going to blog. Not sure what about – as well as what I am writing about, probably anyandevery-thing that interests me, which means music, writing, food, family, our dogs, sunsets, the beach, and so on.[…]
