Life and Events

Award eligibility, 2016
New anthology out at Amazon: Alien Artifacts
News stories out in Fireside and Amazon.
New story out: Into Dust
Site upgrade
Short story out soon in Temporally Out of Order
NaNoWriMo Day 26
NaNoWriMo Day 21
NaNoWriMo Day 19
NaNoWriMo Day 17
Wedding Day
NaNoWriMo Day 15
NaNoWriMo Day 14
NaNoWriMo Day 13
NaNoWriMo Day 12
NaNoWriMo Day 11
NaNoWriMo Day 10
NaNoWriMo Day 9
NaNoWriMo Day 8
NaNoWriMo Day 7
NaNoWriMo Day 6
NaNoWriMo Day 5
NaNoWriMo Day 4
NaNoWriMo Day 3 (task list trickery)
NaNoWriMo Day 2
Ice-Bound: Interactive fiction
NaNoWriMo'14
Writing is like tending an orchard attached to a trebuchet
Continuum
Non-post this week
Brain-scan selfies
Word nerd posters
Upgrade complete... sort of.
Site maintenance
Authors and their habits (infographic)
Happy 2014
I have plenty of management I just don't have any time
Managing an absence of time: Nano update
NaNoWriMo - my plan for 2013
Site upgrade
Use your weirdness to your advantage
Squash your inner Mrs Smith
Odyssey... the blog post yet to come.
More inspiration - elements
Fantastic sandcastles
The beauty of fractals
Connecting the dots - Amanda Palmer
Collaborating with shakespeare
Disturbing ingenuity
Eee! Odyssey acceptance!
Coding vs Writing
Beauty in maths
Stash spots built into cars
The many worlds theor(ies)
The singing sculpture and other oddities
How to write a memorable application essay
Galvanised by rejection
The void of Reader replacements
How to be satisfied without success
Stop motion metaphors
New punctuation marks
Science Awesome. Also: Disney.
The joy of rediscovery
Science gets overly honest
Random points of interest
The Next Big Thing
Happy festive season
Moths are evil
Making Things
Brain space
More blog hiatus
How to host a blacklight party
Accidental hiatus
Writing a novel - a process that might be mine
Story challenge update 2
Story challenge
Story A.D.D.
The specificity trap
Book sharing
Short film - sight and the new H+ web series
Writing breaks of a different kind
Blog Hiatus
The God Particle explained as treacle
Why we need writers, and avoiding perfection
Easter Island statues
Other people having interesting thoughts
Writing Secret: It gets easier
Rejection letters 101: Be Not Afraid
Keeping a writing journal
How to keep writing when your book sucks
Where other people say something interesting
Taking feedback but keeping friendships, and writer's block
Articles of readingness because life happened
Unwitting piracy
Shameless filler post
Mental arms race
How to find answers for things
Building momentum
Techniques for Not-Really-Scheduling - peaks and lulls
How to get things done without a schedule
Two years and counting
Discipline for artists
Learning projects
Respecting your work; creating your workspace
Something to think about
Nix on Nanowrimo
Forget 'evil'. Google: Don't be stupid.
Using music to improve your writing
Writing across media
Learning language
Routines and rewards
Thwarted by technology
Motivational posters
Book porn
Confessions of a bookaholic
Google announce e-reader
Blog down time
SubTracker - progress update
Discovering the process
Writing brain - one thing at a time
Streamlining my life
How to get your own bucket
The remarkable power of your ears
Restrictions can work for you
A writing bucket of your very own
Working in groups
Writing tools and tips from other people
NaNoWriMo and other things
Amazon rankings, PubIt, price morality and making great bad guys
Putting deadlines to use
self-pubbing ebooks now easier and apparently lucrative, and other news
How do writers enjoy movies?
E publishing, self publishing and Stephen King's 10-minute advice.
The day job
Pratchett makes a sword! Oh, there's other news, too.
Space to play
Ideas, execution and robot skin
Time to think and tinker
Aussiecon 4
More digital news, intellectual property and AussieCon
Knowing how to celebrate
New blogs, destroying your own universe, and some funnies
Dorchester goes digital, thoughts on piracy and questions to ask yourself
Amazon's killer kindle blow, and grow your own superstardom.
What keeps you writing?
"Smart" tech
Writing software review: yWriter
How do you tell if it's a novel?
Ramblings around the internet
The urge to scorn the popular
They're just doing this to taunt me.
Reading and recursion
I know it looks messy, but...
How to fail at publishing
War of the ereaders
Organisers Anonymous
MFAs and Creative Writing degrees
The author myth
You can't run on fumes forever
Regular service will return shortly
Know how you work
Things that can be found
Sometimes what the story really needs is to be left alone.
Writing groups - it's not all about them, either.
Permission not to write
With a little help from my friends - writing groups
Why entertainment isn't a waste of time
Apple's wanna-be Kindle-killer
The writer's scourge: Act 2
Procrastination busters - the ten minute rule
Goal momentum - keeping the work going
Goals for 2010
Inaugural blog post