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Ready, Set, Dash!
Ready, Set, Dash! Have no mercy on your keyboard for ten minutes as you give us your most unfiltered self. Edit later, or publish as-is… Mucked up my own earnings today, by allowing myself to ”...
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2014 in review thanks to WordPress …
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 800 times in 2014. If it...
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Walk the Line — Two responses
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “I Walk the Line.” The first thought came on seeing firstly only the title. We’ve all listened to Johnny Cash singing this. If any of us haven’t, we...
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Commended entry to Mapua Literary Festival short story competition
High overhead, a sky breeze scudded clouds away from the moon, just long enough for the boys to be able to glimpse each other across the clearing in the base of the hollow, and to realise they couldn’t...
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ME and AC/DC
In 2012, on a blogging group (blogster? multiply?) we were challenged to pick our favourite music performer/group, and use their titles to reveal something about ourselves. This is that post, revived…...
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Strike a Chord –
Do you play an instrument? Is there a musical instrument whose sound you find particularly pleasing? Tell us a story about your experience or relationship with an instrument of your choice....
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Submission Guidelines
Know any junior writers? Get them to work before the end of the month and submit either a story or a poem on their latest theme : The Carrot is Mightier Than the Sword. Submissions close on December...
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Rotorua’s Fenton Air Base, WWII
Not an education related post, but a vehicle for me to share photographs to a forum which only allows pics from a URL. Relates to a project I initiated to have airmen who trained at the above air base,...
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The 2016 Publishing Shift
“Pressed This” as it’s so damn useful and true! Thanks to the creator Source: The 2016 Publishing ShiftFiled under: Uncategorized
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Commended entry to Mapua Literary Festival short story competition
High overhead, a sky breeze scudded clouds away from the moon, just long enough for the boys to be able to glimpse each other across the clearing in the base of the hollow, and to realise they couldn’t...
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Off the Page – 200 word homework
There’s something about Douglas Archer…I can’t quite put my finger on anything in particular…it’s just— Things don’t add up. He wears a wedding ring on a cord around his neck, but his house— Have you...
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B is for Book, Bored and Below Compulsory School Age
Originally posted on summerbornchildren: I’m not an early years teaching expert, but I have witnessed firsthand how ingrained a hatred of reading can develop in some children, and was acutely reminded...
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What Happens When We Judge a Book by Its Cover?
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski: People usually respond in one of two ways to the phenomenon of judging a book by its cover; they mourn man’s shallowness, or they consider a book’s marketing...
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How Not To Writte… A Novel
Originally posted on How Not To Writte: They say everyone has a book inside them (and we don’t mean in the ’embarrassing visit to A&E’ sense). We all have a story to tell, a journey to share or an...
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Wow, still available
…after all these years But nearly sold out. Copies still available at the Rotorua Museum Gift Shop, at c.$25 per print copy. (This post featured at Red Penn Reviews shortly after it was published…) “An...
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Longest Placename…
Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu… …is the longest placename in New Zealand, maybe even in the world with its 86 letters. It’s roadside...
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A List of Things That Don’t Make You A Writer
Originally posted on CLASH: When I moved to Austin, I was surprised to learn that every guy and gal hanging out at a coffee shop was a novelist, every barista was sitting on a few truly outstanding,...
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Why I love being a writer
I wish I could say “Why I Love Being an Indie Author”*, I really do…but as a writer, my only published work was a selection of poems written for Rotorua’s ‘Mad Poets Society’ collection Rotorua –...
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