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02/02/2024

The latest from the blog

Aron Visuals on Unsplash Each New Year brings a flurry of activity as people make resolutions, purchase diaries, and press their personal reset buttons. What weird monkeys we are. What makes Decemb…

19/10/2023

Photo: Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times/NTB For many, childhoods aren't dreamy. It's a coin toss after all; who we get for parents, where we get to live, the time/era of our birth, our genetics. There are many chances for a sub-optimum experience when, as children, we are at our most vulnerable. For those of us who are lucky, we mustn't forget fate's substantial leg-up....

Photo: Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times/NTB For many, childhoods aren’t dreamy. It’s a coin toss after all; who we get for parents, where we get to live, the time/era of our birth, o…

22/09/2023

I've been thinking about AI.

31/08/2023

A new short story is out. Jen is practicing gratitude. It's not going well.

Who is she grateful for? Lily, of course…   1. Lily.  Josh could have chosen someone less agreeable. Jen doesn’t write that. It’s not what she means and not nice to Lily who is …

09/08/2023

09/08/2023

More from the blog: Facing That Sh***y First Draft! Writing can be a tough gig at times. This blogpost is part of a series on writing a new novel, The Paradise Motel. Join me in the process.

I didn’t work on my new novel during the first six months of the year, but I was hyper-aware of it glowering in my Dropbox waiting to show me what a horrible writer I was. I did almost anythi…

26/07/2023

Check out what I've been reading lately.

Freakily, reading Tim Winton’s Dirt Music is like reading about myself. Looking back, it’s not difficult to find a time when I was a little lost, a little trapped, a little aimless and …

28/05/2023

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“Sadly I do most of my proofreading after I hit sned.”

28/05/2023

More in the Writing The Paradise Motel Saga. Read if you dare.

When we last met, I was writing a novel synopsis, but not at the behest of an agent or publisher. I was 10 000 words into The Paradise Motel and in need of some scaffolding. The synopsis would be a…

31/10/2022

A review of Michelle de Krester's, Scary Monsters. Read, if you dare.

Even with the benefit of the past, we are wading knee deep through our present. We embrace the new normal, but as we do, it’s already ageing, very nearly passe. Where does our gaze rest and w…

21/10/2022

Thinking of doing NaNoWriMo? This might help.

A Rough Story Arc to Get You Thinking About Your Novel This post is for people who would love to write a novel. It’s on their bucket list and it doesn’t look like its going away. I get …

15/09/2022

It's Colin Firth's birthday today. Happy birthday, Mr Darcy!!! ❤️

30/04/2022

This is how I remember it, but it could be wrong:
‘When I was a child, I learned to count
1-2-3-4-5
Now I count lives
1 life
1 life
1 life
Each life taken for the first time.’

‎Show On Being with Krista Tippett, Ep Pádraig Ó Tuama — “This fantastic argument of being alive” - 28 Apr 2022

22/04/2022

Olive is a retired school teacher. She is hard-edged and difficult. She misses things. She rubs people the wrong way. Her only adult child has made a beeline across the country to avoid her and even when his marriage fails, he refuses to return. It kills her, this lack of loyalty. Her husband, Henry, has fantasised about an affair with his pharmacy assistant, but decided against it....

http://heyhomosapiens.com/2022/04/22/reading-elizabeth-strouts-olive-kitteridge/

Olive is a retired school teacher. She is hard-edged and difficult. She misses things. She rubs people the wrong way. Her only adult child has made a beeline across the country to avoid her and eve…

20/04/2022

I feel 🤢

03/04/2022

A lesson in humility 😁 📚

23/03/2022

Love it! ❤️

08/02/2022

08/04/2021

Listen to Gabrielle talk about 'Numb' on The Authors Show - https://mailchi.mp/10c9348ebc42/listen-to-gabrielle-talk-about-numb-on-the-authors-show