For four months now, I’ve been commuting full time to Sydney. My commute is long, about two hours uninterrupted train time each way. And every time someone asks me how I’m coping with the commute I say I’m fine because it’s four hours, five days a week of guilt and distraction free writing. For the …
Writing Practice, Like Actual Practice
I’m a lazy writer. Sometime in the last year, I don’t when, I decided I didn’t need to work at writing anymore. I had a few publications under my belt, heck, I’d won a competition. My work was good, I was good, everything was good. And so I got complacent. I stopped getting …
Announcement! Writing Services
Hello Dreamers, I have some exciting news... I've opened a new Etsy shop. I know, I know, I already have an Etsy shop. Well yes, Hearsay Designs is still open and serving all your statement jewellery needs. But I wanted to start offering writing services to people like you (creative writers) and small business (like …
You Reap What You Sow
I was listening to the Being Boss podcast yesterday and they were talking about magic. Specifically, they were talking about how saying what you want to do and achieve out loud can make the thing manifest. Or at least it may feel that way, since saying it out loud may subconsciously make you work harder …
Arranging Short Story Collections
Hello Dreamers, I've been knocked out with the flu for the last week so forgive me if this post is a little incoherent. Last month I wrote and submitted my first short story collection and I wanted to tell you how I went about ordering my stories for submission. I'd expected it to be a …
Stop Being a Suffering Artist
I want to talk about this idea of the suffering artist. I’ve been thinking, and this might sound harsh but, we bring it on ourselves. I think that part of us love the suffering, we love the idea of being a martyr for our art, we love being able to tell people how much we’ve …
I’m Writing a Short Story Collection!
Hey Dreamers, I’ve been working on a short story collection lately and I really wanted to share with you a little of my process so far. It has been a major goal for me this year to gather all my short stories together into a cohesive collection for publication. I spent the first few months …
Making Money From Writing
2015 was the first year I made any money from writing. I made $15. It was for my short story 'A Girl and her Dog' in SQ Magazine and I was stoked. In 2016 I made $151.06. That's more than 100 times growth. I also won a short story competition and an iPad mini. In …
Are you a young writer? What it’s like getting old.
Last month I turned 29. According to many grants, competitions, festivals and publications, that makes this my last, official year of being a young writer. Loosing this label is a little disheartening, panic-inducing some might say. It’s as if the clock hands have been suddenly wound forward. I know it’s not true. There’s no definitive …
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Showing Hearts has been published!
Two weeks ago Volume 18 of FIVE:2:ONE hit the stands with my name on the contents page. It was a long slog from acceptance (mid last year) to publication but it was worth it to see me name in an honest to goodness Amazon listing. The story, ‘Showing Hearts’ is about a pair of ex-lovers. …
