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He may have been a tad intimidated but Andrew Denton managed to keep his cool for most of a spellbinding confab with that wiliest of politicos—Bob Hawke. Hawke remained pretty tight-lipped throughout. Denton had to had to dig deep— in other words he had to hope his subject had soft underbelly and that it was…

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Viper has gone in the post just over two hours ago wending its way to the ABC Fiction Award. It feels good to have done it and now to return to Blue Moves in Good Faith.

While the edit is proceeding apace I have decided to abort. Why? 1. Two comments from first my partner and then my mum put me off my stride. The first from my partner was, like, at 9 pp an hour aren’t we talking quantity not quality. And that really freaked me out because I don’t…

is how author William P Young describes the titular abode of his self-publishing phenomenon, The Shack, which began as a self-published paperback sold out of his garage and is currently: No 1 bestseller on NYT trade paperback fiction list No 1 bestseller on Barnes and Noble trade paperback fiction list No 1 bestseller on Borders…

Two more days to go and I am up to p 190 but I am going to try and get a hundred pp done today. I am worried about losing my mojo by letting this drag on so long and concerned that by becoming a chore I am letting the emotional charge run cold. SO…

25 June In spite of taking a break to see a difficult relation which put me off my stride I did manage to get to p 17o yesterday. So here is the breakdown for today: Hr 1: 170-179 Hr 2: 180-189 Hr 3: 189-198 Hr 4: 198-207 Hr 5: 207-216 HR 6: 216-225

This is the final (ish) countdown. I have four more days to finish this rewrite. Break it down: I am on p 150/347 today, which means that in order to finish on Friday I have to turn over 50 pp/day which is roughly 8 pp/hour. So no time to be precious. Yesterday I worked from…