• Strange June

    … going away is valuable because it offers opportunities to gain fresh perspectives on your work. It might even present an epiphany or revelation, literary or otherwise. At the very least, it’s a working holiday for the mind, and offers a chance to contemplate quietly, whether alone or in the company of other writers. I…

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  • Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! You registered on WordPress.com 12 years ago. Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging. A chilly start, and a slight surprise on waking to see June on the calendar. So soon. I knew June was coming, of course, but something about the first day of any month makes you think.…

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  • Late autumn in Melbourne. The nights have well and truly drawn in, and at the moment the sun sets close to 5.30pm. Last week I noticed the camellia tree had a number of new flower buds, after months of bareness, clusters of tightly packed pinkness which overnight blossomed into beautiful large flowers, petals the colour…

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  • Earlier this month I published a blog post for Elwood Writers about the main thing I’m writing at the moment – the post can be found on the group’s website, via the link above. While you’re over at elwoodwriters.com, have a wander round, see if anything else takes your fancy. There’s plenty to dip into.…

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  • I forgot to reblog this Elwood Writers blog-post containing the podcast and audio file for episode 510 of Cover to Cover from Vision Australia Radio. Better late than never – fortunately there’s no use-by or best-before date on these things. The program was broadcast on Friday 2 February and features work by Elwood Writers from…

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