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There is a particular kind of pain that comes with self-editing. It’s by no means ‘the sensitive artist’ kind of wistful pain. It’s not the “I’m shaping my masterpiece” in an attic kind of pain. I mean the slow, grinding realisation that the bits I thought were working probably don’t, that the chapter I felt quietly pleased with collapses under even passing scrutiny, that every fix I thought was so clever until it reveals more problems than solutions. I start with optimism. A fix list. Beauty. Clear intentions. All set. All reasonable. All achievable. Right. The First Problem: I Can’t See What I’ve Written TheRead More →

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Phew! That was something special. Today I went to a book launch at ARC Disability Services Inc., where three more writers from their creative cohort have published an illustrated children’s book. Trent Griffin ‘The Kindest Goat’, Darren Smith ‘Friends at First Sight’ and Andrew Barton / Imogen Lambeth’s ‘Frank the DJ’ I have been to a lot of launches in my time. This one had a different current running through it. Let me tell you about one of the books. Frank the DJ is structured with real craft. Frank is a flying fox who hears music drifting through the air and decides he wants toRead More →