Struggling to keep up.
A few years ago, at the height of my “poor” health, I hit 149kg. I’m tall enough to make it not that bad, but it’s still pretty bad. Pants don’t fit, shirts don’t fit, and there’s the series of minor inconveniences whose shared foundation is walking around feeling like a Fat Bag of Crap. We […]
So I’ve been posting on Substack, like a blog, instead of here. The reason for that is simple, I wanted to see if people would see it when I then posted links to my writing on Social Media. And they did. If I post links to this website, people won’t see them as much. A […]
I don’t know if it’s like writing in Livejournal instead of Blogger back in the early oughties, or like kids using Wapslap or Smeaderbeads to spread their influence these days, but I’ve only recently discovered SUBSTACK. Despite the constant, ever-annoying reminders that I should be giving them my money (if it existed, I would!) I’m […]
There’s been a feeling brewing for quite some time, and I don’t know if I’d ever have been able to put voice to it without watching Jessie Gender’s latest long-form essay “The Stories Fascism Fears Most.” There’s a LOT in there, but what moved me most was the parting words. The passion, the truth, the […]
Types of Communities There are all kinds of communities for writers in Australia, I’d reckon, but mostly what I’ve found is either Facebook Groups or actual organisations. My experiences with both are hit-and-miss. Groups Hits happen when I’m on a FB group that does more than just post memes about how writing makes you crazy […]
It’s one thing seeing your childhood irrevocably changed after a flood, the fishing and swimming holes and the camping spots all gone, the blue of the water gone brown, your memories all that are left. It’s another thing entirely to not remember where you buried him, the first one. The worst one. You fight down […]
So I’m just stumbling through a forum thread while looking for information on the “tsuba”. See, I figure I can make a katana from scratch. Well, a wooden one anyway. Y’know, for display and such. Hell, when I mentioned it to Jade she got excited and asked me to make a Lesbian Sword. I can’t […]
It’s bad enough that the kiosk errored out when I tried to change the drinks from Coke to Vanilla Coke, then barfed on printing. At least the order got through to the staff. SPOILERS: Not that it mattered! After an 11-minute wait, they call my number. I know it was 11-minutes because there’s a timer […]
Hard to believe that one of the biggest things to happen to me in my Writing Journey is something I haven’t talked about in here at all. I recently had the honour of being included in the 100 Micro Memoirs from 100 WA Authors. Ourselves, the first anthology of its kind in Australia, Put together […]