I’ve fallen in love with dungeons and dragons again, descending once more into the depths of the nerd.
As I’ve written previously, I am employed as a dungeon master to run a D&D campaign for a group of NDIS-funded …
I knew something was wrong. Whenever something goes right, I am immediately suspicious, for starters. So back in 2016 when I was nominated for an Aurealis (and ended up winning), had an inclusion in Clarke’s “Best Science Fiction of the …
I wrote an article on this four years ago, barely a year into writing, just after I’d finished the draft of my first novel. In my unrestrained neophyte enthusiasm, I offered fourteen suggestions, which I will reassess shortly.
But …
200 shots fired in my ongoing campaign to have you motherfuckers read one of my stories. Not many have hit: 14, to be precise, new sales*.
Good sales, most of them, to be sure – many professional, six to the …
It’s a question writers ask throughout their careers. While it is one, I suspect, most frequently posed (yelled, sighed) at the beginning, even the best have been known to lament. Richard Flanagan, for example, nearly quit writing to be a …
I respond with a mixture of envy and fear every time a writer tells me they were born to write. Every time I read about this famous writer getting their first type-writer at 10, or that famous writer publishing their …
