(Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun.) I came across an interesting review on Stuff the other day – it’s for an app called Write Or Die. The basic idea is simple: it nags you to write. You get to choose the target (number of words or elapsed time), and the punishment (ranging from gentle nudges to …
Wellington, on a good day night
Back home again after a quick trip to Wellington, where I was the guest poet at the April NZPS meeting. The whole thing takes place upstairs at the Thistle Inn, which is a gorgeous old building on Mulgrave St. All timber floors and branching corridors and rooms tucked around corners and down passageways. Apparently it’s …
This week, take up jogging; next, an Olympic Gold in the Marathon!
Couldn’t resist sharing this. It’s one of those things you come across regularly in online forums where writers and readers mix. Every month or so there’s someone who comes out with the whole “maybe one of these days I should write a novel” thing. They mean well (and I’m guilty of it myself from time to time), …
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Signing off for 2011
Hard to believe the year is nearly over. Feels much longer. And much shorter. So much has happened. So much lost. We did the Cathedral walkway last weekend – a friend who has already done it commented tat it was a bit like being told someone had died and then being shown the bed they’d …
The Ministry of Sorrow
Another day, another @#*! earthquake. I was cooking dinner at the time, and let out a shriek, which is not usual for me. I hate hate hate hate hate @#*! earthquakes. But it did have one useful effect – reminded me of an article I’d seen on the Stuff website. It was written by Islay …
A Dark Feathered Art 