Werd: Bookmooch.com for serious bookworms

Byadmin June 30, 2008

Bookmooch keeps old books in circulation but hoarders beware: you have to share the love on this site.

MOVING IS HELL!

Byadmin December 2, 2008December 2, 2008

Especially when you zap your inbox changing email providers, your gut packs it in due to stress, your kids go into lockdown mode, your from-hell oven gives the Thanksgiving turkey an afro, your home-business and sole source of income stalls due to a packaging snafu that leaves you covered in powdered dextrose, there’s no hot…

New Gig at Australian Writers Centre

Byadmin April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

I’m teaching a Creative Writing Stage 1 Course, and Novel Writing Essentials Course at AWC – just finished the first couple of rounds—and although it’s early days, I’m already loving it. Lots of keen students, a fantastic curriculum for all levels, really great support, and a very effective online learning platform—which is a big plus….

cool stuff

Byadmin June 20, 2008July 23, 2008

“It had been a very bad night. The rain was blasting away and the wipers and lights were hardly worth the trouble. It had been a sudden rain and I had failed to check the weather report. That had been stupid of me. It should have been a priority. I was considering this bit of…

100 pp in a day?

Byadmin June 25, 2008

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…

Songwriters are writers too.

Byadmin August 13, 2008August 14, 2008

measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/: The song writing process sounds familiar to writers—nine-tenths perspiration and one-tenth inspiration. Too bad more top writers won’t step down from their ivory towers and confab like this. Our profession could use this kind of cool. Maybe the decreasing chances of what we think of as “success” has led to a kind of over-protectiveness….