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I hate being on the defensive about writing fantasy. And yet I find I am, all the time. When people find out I am a writer, their first questions is: ‘What sort of books do you write?’I am tempted to … Continue reading
If you want to be a writer, read this first. … Continue reading
Some days back, I wrote about our very, very slow journey on a large wooden tongkang with a 75 hp engine from Tawau, mainland Sabah, to Sebatik Island.Needless to say, on our return we decided to catch the regularly scheduled … Continue reading
It has just been pointed out to me that Harriet the Prolific is being gunned down big time over on the Amazon.com site. [see here] It seems a group of disparate people have got together to disparage and shatter the … Continue reading
I have added some more comments on synopsis writing to yesterday’s blog. Poor Indonesia, they seem to lurch from one disaster to another. Including ferry disasters. Here’s a photo we took in Tawau of several ferries loading up for Indonesian … Continue reading
Ok, I have spent four days on this darn synopsis, (actually for a quartet rather than a trilogy). Which is ridiculous. I can write 5,000 words on a good day, and it has taken me four days to write a … Continue reading
Here’s a couple of more photos taken on Sebatik Island. My elder daughter reckons she can’t think of anything that would prompt her to leave a comment on a stranger’s blog. Come to think of it, she won’t even do … Continue reading
I stood at the foot of the lighthouse and looked out across the Straits of Malacca. One can see Indonesia on a fine day, someone said. Not that day: in the distance the horizon blurred into sea haze, and hence … Continue reading
I loathe, despise, abhor, abominate the necessity for writing synopses. Right now I am writing this blog, rather than write a synopsis. But as the final book in a trilogy winds down towards publication date (at least from the writerly … Continue reading
Criminals in Baghdad have just blown up the book market. They killed a lot of books as well as people. Some people fear knowledge. They know it sets people free. They know it enables us to make up our own … Continue reading