Poet. Storyteller.
If money is the measure of success, as a short story writer and poet, I have little chance. So why do I turn up? Why do I fill notebooks with words? Then copy and rewrite it in Evernote. And then again into Scrivener? I now know I’m borrowing a talent as it were, but that doesn’t…
Andrew Whalan
Sometimes the best Christmas presents have more than one layer of wrapping! A few weeks ago I signed up for a secret Santa Blog. Much like the Christmas tradition, I’m given a name and then asked to write a blog for them. As well, I become the recipient of a blog written just for me.…
Last week I came across this article from the Wheeler Centre by Jessie Cole which talks about the self revelation of writing fiction. As an author, I’ve had that happen to me. I didn’t pay much attention to it until this afternoon. I’m writing about two characters. They’re not getting along so well. I’m trying unsuccessfully to…
According to the normal media, the Internet is inhabited by mummy bloggers. As a male mummy blogger I find this a bit hard to take. I did style myself as a male mummy blogger during a mock debate over social media but was politely howled down. I learnt from that. I’m now a daddy blogger.…
Before social media, there was the grapevine, bush telegraph or rumour mill. I found this out growing up in two small country towns. Basically, my parents knew everything about everyone. There were no secrets there, and now there seem to be none on the internet! Of course, this is the negative back-biting side of social…
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