Point of view (POV) is essentially who the story is being told by and how close the reader will feel they are experiencing the story. Are...

This year I ‘knocked out’ an 80,000-word, first draft of a Commercial Fiction novel. In fact, I started in the first week of July and...

Things that tick me off: ·       Not being able to find a particular coat ·       Vegetable seedlings that refuse to grow no matter how...

Health is a shit of a thing. A bastard that sticks around in good times, and then deserts you when things turn. Cold weather - it says,...

Today I saw swordfighters in the park! Now, I didn’t go looking for them – of course. Ambling through the river side pathways of Wynyard...

Writing, it is a fool’s game if you believe you can make money. I once heard Charlotte Wood say that she has hardly made any money from...

Middle-agedness...what do I think it means? It is freedom to choose what I will accept in my life – as a way of earning income, as a way...

I am a relatively healthy person. Up until last year I was also somewhat fit. However, in the last 15 months I’ve had two bouts of a...

Who remembers being given extra shifts at the end of the financial year to do a physical ‘Stocktake’? Looking back, I feel melancholic:...

Instagram is a fabulous medium, isn’t it? I love the snapshot into someone’s life at a precise moment. What the photo conveys, how the...

I love goats. I really wish I had room for them in my future house. My visions of the future – life in my house and all that it entails,...

In an age where everything seems to be binary – you are either this or that – I was hesitant to couch this piece in the Good versus Bad...

This week I am late with my blog, courtesy of a nasty recurring back injury. It’s reminded to be grateful for all the days I’ve had where...

I did something completely out of the ordinary on the weekend. I went to something called a Death Café. My mother died when I was just...

I’m battling with something. It started as a gurgle a little over a year ago. I pushed it down, denying I was feeling this way. Further...

Having different jobs and careers is a great way to know a little about a lot of things. My first after school job was in a deli at a...

The feeling of a dressmaker's pin spiking into a barefoot is a sensation no-one should experience. But, for me, it was a weekly...