As I mentioned in previous posts, my first ever novel idea, Hadeon (from like 4 years ago) has resurfaced in a modified form and I’ve been outlining (as well as blogging right now) through Google Docs. It’s exciting, and nostalgic in a way, to be recounting some of the basic ideas and critical scenes I’d [...]

I’m blogging in a new way from work now that’s been discovered through finding a new way to outline my old novel (more on that in another post), and I’m not using it to create lists of things to do, and going with my music obsession, albums I need to obtain either by raiding my [...]

It seems like it was scripted. Here we have this new Vice-Presidential candidate from the arch conservative ilk, you know anti-choice and preaches abstinence as the only form of contraception, and then what happens? Her daughter gets pregnant. Well obviously abstinence doesn?t work then, does it? Well this gives a chance to Palin to back her [...]

It seems no matter how relaxed and enjoyable a weekend I have, I?m never ready for Monday mornings. The decision to downgrade from my usual hardcore caffeine source of Red Bull to a meagre cup of coffee doesn?t seem to help either. I?d like to go to bed, but being at work, blogging is the [...]

Dale, a writer over at Write Anything, an excellent group blog about writing, has made the call out for writers to share their oddities. This stems from a comment from one of his non-writer friends that writers, generally, are just an odd bunch. I must confess that I probably think this is true, at least [...]

Paper company fined $230,000 over worker Brett Carroll’s death, The Age How much is a life worth? It?s not an easy question, but surely the life of this worker, killed by a paper making company, is worth more than a measly $230,000. I?m sure the top executives get paid more than that in a freaking year. [...]

What could be a better way of denying that the weekend is over than reliving it in blog post? I?ve been at work for an hour and haven?t started working yet, but instead reading blogs, forums and now blogging myself. I spent a few hours yesterday at Federation Square in Melbourne for the Melbourne Writer?s Festival. [...]

This was a spur of the moment piece and you can guess where it comes from by the end of it. At the moment it seems, I can get the power of my writing out in short sharp bursts, which works well for flash fiction more than anything longer like a short story or a [...]

Forgive me for the extremely naïve play on words in the headline, but I read an interesting article in The Age this morning about Melbourne being appointed by UNESCO as it?s second City of Literature, behind Edinburgh. It seems Melbourne is a city for writers, hosting the Melbourne Writers Festival this weekend, as well as [...]

I?m pleased to point out, as some of you might have noticed, that over the last couple of weeks, my blogging has covered a fair few different topics, including the realms of various political issues, even a book review and to my surprise, a rare writing update. It seems the political and literary minds have [...]

Contrary to the bullshit our politicians and wanker economists are telling us, most of the Australian economy has been experiencing negative growth. The thing that has been giving us the impression that we?re booming is the fact that mining industry is booming and compensating for the rest of the economy. This on the back of [...]