My Writing
Something to Proof – A Keyflame short story
“Okay Fatso, we’ve got an hour to pull this off.” The cat looks up at me with his tongue out, caught mid-bath, his leg pointing delicately towards the front door. I press down…
Creating Keyflame’s cover
Creating Keyflame’s cover was a journey almost as long as writing Keyflame itself. When I decided to publish Keyflame via Amazon back in 2010, it was more whim than business decision. I didn’t…
How much of Keyflame is real?
I lived in Grahamstown for four years while studying Journalism at Rhodes University. I loved my time there more than words can say, but in my final year I tried to find some…
A year of writing, a year of doodles
A year ago I shared a portrait of my main character, Tarra. Now, in honour of our anniversary, I thought I'd share some of the doodles and drawings I've done of her and…
Writing habits
I've been trying to write every day since I started this Nano2015 project back on 1 April. I've been recording my progress day-by-day since July and this is what I've learned.
The “art” of writing (a first draft)
A first draft doesn't have to be perfect. It's just a sketch.
Hero, villain, victim
A reflection on the roles of The Drama Triangle and the impact it can it have when all characters get a chance to play all the roles.
A horse with no name – the dreaded middle
One of my favourite Nano Pep Talks was by Maureen Johnson about reaching the middle part of your novel and realising that it's pretty much like the middle of Australia - large, barren…
A matter of character
I'm trying to avoid writing a main character who acts and sounds like me. So for my latest MC, Tarra, I decided to roll out some attributes using a Pathfinder character sheet.
