Breath, Tim Winton
I hate to be obvious, but this book took my breath away. Seriously, it’s one of my all time favourite books, and it’s stayed with me from the moment I…
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe
Oh my, the flowery, dated language of Edgar Allen Poe (although understandable, I guess, considering he wrote in the early-mid 1800s)! It can be a slog to get through ……
Freewriting for story ideas
I love freewriting. I often use it as a tool to get inspiration, to combat writers block, to work my way out of a hole in a story, to come…
Flash fiction from the road
My trip basically turned into one very long Sunday drive, so I had a lot of time to myself. A lot of time to get bored – particularly through some…
Writing on the road
The whole point of my trip was to fulfil my dream of writing and travelling. That’s what I want my life to be. Not technical writing – I want to…
The joys of reading
So many books! I haven’t done so much free range reading since … I don’t know, teenage-hood, maybe? By free range I mean not prescribed. English Lit at uni was…
Getting used to #vanlife
NYE. I’ve been on the road a week and am slowly getting a handle on travelling solo in a van. And boy, am I excited about 2022. Sure, COVID is…
And I’m off!
On Christmas morning, after a Christmas breakfast of croissants and accoutrements with The Son, I realised I was actually going to do this thing. Once again, I started hyperventilating. I’d…
Time to live the dream
I’d just signed off from yet another ridiculous Zoom call with a team from the Day Job’s current project and had to restrain myself from slamming my laptop against a…
Words in the Corporate World
The corporate world is one that I have long complained about. It’s inauthentic bullshit. A lot of it doesn’t actually mean anything. Not really. A lot of it is making…