Sometimes I get ideas for things from totally random places, other times they come from things I have seen or read or heard. I want to share with you the process of one of my recent ideas – just to show how long it can take from my having the original idea for a piece, until it becomes real.
A dear friend of mine who has been writing since the 1980s once told me that there are no rules when it comes to writing. "A writer only writes for themselves and does their best to create the books they want to read."
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Short story – Long Drop. Offered for consideration for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2021, category of Short Story.
Offered for consideration for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2021, category of Short Story. If you think this work is worth a nomination, please take a couple of minutes to fill in this form at the SFFANZ page, before 31st March 2021. Thank you so much, and I hope you enjoy it.
I started 2021 with an online feud, one which had been brewing for a while. It began as an innocent and innocuous tweet, as these things often do, as to which movie was the better one: Aliens (James Cameron, 1986) or RoboCop? (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
As pretty much everyone else has said in their yearly roundups and reviews, 2020 was, to put it mildly, a bit rubbish. One of the best things I did this year was to start outlining monthly goals and tracking data with a Life Journal.
I had big plans for 2020. Yeah, I know, me and everybody else, right? But I really did... And then… everything went to Hell in a hand basket.
My final story of 2020: DIE HARD meets Hallmark (kinda) in this crazy, tongue-in-cheek holiday mashup. Content warning: contains profanities, PG13.
A weird, seasonal horror story for anyone who has ever wished they had a second pair of hands or more time to get everything done over the holiday period. Content warning: includes some profane language. PG13