Struggling to keep up.
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 […]
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 […]
Yet another example of masturbating my book characters all over a short story, this is an interaction that’s heavily-based in my world, and maybe wasn’t the best way to slap a short story together. Especially for something as exciting and important as The Little Journal, something put together by the most-excellent people at Writing WA […]