Reading Time: 10 minutes Creating worlds is hard. Or, should I say, creating believable worlds is hard. Thankfully, earlier this week, I was able to sit down with an expert. I e-met science-fiction/fantasy author Lee Battersby when he emailed me through my website and asked me to judge the City of Rockingham’s Christmas Poetry Competition. I judged that competition twice…
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week just been I moved house (and got sick, thanks Rob/Garth!). I also, finally, got to announce that I’ll be an invited artist at the 2018 National Young Writers Festival. I’ll be honest, I’ve been struggling with my writing lately. Work has been stressful; I was covering for another staff member for three weeks,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I finally got around to rewriting the opening chapters of my novel, and it’s taken me a very long time. I did no research before writing the first draft and, as a result, I made a lot of assumptions that needed to be changed. Natasha Lester, a writer of historical fiction, explains that she does…