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May 22nd, 2013

Sydney Writers' Festival is on again, with many great events and fascinating writers here for a week or so. It is rather like the circus coming to town, and I do think that there should be a parade of all the guests on elephant-back down George...

May 20th, 2013

A typical writing day?

Ask me questions. Go on. Otherwise I shall have to ask some of myself, and who knows where that will lead. So please do ask me questions in the comments here. In the meantime, here is a question to be going on with, that I will also answer. What did...

May 19th, 2013

Gone fishing . . .

I've been away the last three days, hence the lack of posts. The time was not entirely devoted to fishing, though I got out a few times and exerted my angling skills upon the local piscine population, without noticeable effect. I did catch a rock...

May 15th, 2013

If it isn't finished, nothing can happen

The accompanying photo is the first page of a novel I started writing when I was 19 and driving around the United Kingdom in a beat-up Austin 1600 with a gold flame stripe down the bonnet. The novel was called CAPTAIN OF GUARD, and I wrote about 50,...

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