The first short story I ever wrote, The Volunteer, managed to earn a spot in an Asia-Pacific speculative fiction anthology. I’m told it’s uncommon to sell your first short story, and was very pleased to find a home for …
There must be something in the water down in Australia. The two high roller events for the Aussie Millions – the 100,000k challenge (with re-buys) and the 250,000k (with re-buys) broke all previous field sizes this year, and by a …
Alligator Blood, the true story of Australian entrepreneur, Daniel Tzvetkoff, should have been a compelling read. It has all the ingredients: greed, hubris, extravagant wealth, a dizzying rise followed by a precipitous fall; the noir underbelly of the online porn …
Writing fiction is tough. I’ll tell you that for free.
It has a degree of difficulty far above that of non-fiction. Aside from the fact that bringing distinct characters to life, painting vivid scenes, churning out snappy dialogue and finding …
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
The obituaries for …
I wrote ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ in 2012 in response to the comments of some moron of the day. There are so many on the issue of homosexuality it’s hard to keep up sometimes. This past week has seen a …
As rising Labor star Tanya Plibersek takes her place as deputy opposition leader, we assume she’s come to an arrangement with her husband on taking care of their three young children. She’s managed to find a way, notwithstanding those that …
Nappertime has been up and running for only a month. I needed a centralised location for all my articles, so here it is.
I’m slowly gathering several years’ worth of pieces spread out across virtual space and time. At the …
Fiction writing has only been with me for a year, maybe eighteen months. I knew it would be a lot tougher than writing non-fiction, but I never quite realised how tough.
I have a number of short stories currently doing …
Karma police, arrest this man / He talks in maths he buzzes like a fridge / He’s like a detuned radio – Radiohead
It started with Malaysian children’s television on the second floor of an Irishman’s sports bar in Hanoi.…
