A writer friend recently lamented about the impossibility of moving on with her manuscript until she had made her previous pages perfect. And they were never perfect so she couldn’t get any momentum going. I rolled my eyes and started my spiel about self-sabotage and shitty first drafts and made her promise to write a […]
Month: October 2012
Refilling the Well…
or Where Inspiration Comes From, Part 2… I can feel a pre-writing-frenzy fugue coming on so I won’t spend too many words here. Here are some pics from our redneck weekend instead: A shoe-tree just outside Waikerie in the South Australian Riverland. Bizarre things like this restore my faith. In what, I don’t really know, […]
From the archive…
Here are some old pics I discovered when I was cleaning up my phone. They played a part in some of the setting and action scenes in Friday Brown. They were taken on my father-in-law’s property at Mt Jagged, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA. This was how I imagined the scrub surrounding Murungal Creek, but perhaps a little less green. […]