The hesitation to believe, the uncertainty of possibility and the suspicion, misgivings and disbelief of those things that can’t be seen!...

I can’t help but think that endings are so very important; in life and in writing. In life the end of epic adventures, long hauls,...

I love a balancing act. Those folks who seem to be able to maintain an impossible position on one limb without teetering, wavering or...

(NB blandification is a word made up by me) Our hyper-sensitivity and 21st Century desire for ‘political correctness’ has put us at great...

As a writer of mysteries and crime fiction I’m constantly doing my homework! That is, I’m reading lots of books in this genre, watching...

I’ve been writing a lot lately and part of my process is making myself justify why I’ve described a character or scene in a particular...

In my last blog I reflected on the creation of villains and whether or not these adversarial characters should be unsympathetic,...

In stories villains are either characters that cannot be redeemed because of their departure from all things that make us human; or they...

The season was upon us, the time was right and the decision made. The great migration was about to occur. In other words, we were moving....

But that might actually be a lie; a partial lie. The Federal Election is upon us and politics is palpable. It is under discussion in...

My journey as a writer continued this week with two reviews and one newspaper interview. It is strange to think I’ve managed to complete...

An anniversary is approaching. An anniversary is a time to relive a point of time in one’s life. It marks the passing of a year or years;...

It’s an interesting word expectation. Great expectations, high expectations and low ones too!  The sense that one has something waiting...