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2015

Would a denizen of Pluto be a Plutocrat?original ↗
5 Sept 2015
And the ideal length for a book is…original ↗
4 Sept 2015
‘Italian Odyssey’: cover reveal!original ↗
3 Sept 2015
My bookshelves are a mess and I can’t be bothered fixing them…original ↗
2 Sept 2015
In which I discover ‘decadent’ paleo foodoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2015
This week’s mega short-story challengeoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2015
Are we returning to the age of short books?original ↗
30 Aug 2015
Stories of aliens versus us are really commenting on our own dark sideoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2015
Avoiding the writers’ up-front info dumporiginal ↗
28 Aug 2015
My ducking phone censors me, damon itoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2015
So it seems smart people live longer. What does that mean?original ↗
25 Aug 2015
This week’s mega short-story challengeoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2015
Points of view for writers – third person lockedoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2015
Of the sense of wonder that casts light into the darknessoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2015
Points of view  for writers – first person singularoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2015
Cutesy neologisms needle me, sometimesoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2015
Pondering on the stuff Robert A Heinlein inventedoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2015
Cool ways for writers to control head-hopping…original ↗
14 Aug 2015
Whatever happened to the heroes in science fiction?original ↗
11 Aug 2015
This week’s mega short-story challengeoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2015
The trick to structuring your book right – first time, every timeoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2015
How things happen faster than you sometimes noticeoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2015
The centenary of Chunuk Bair reminds us it’s time to re-think New Zealand’s history. Again.original ↗
7 Aug 2015
How many Kiwis fought on Gallipoli? I think the answer’s an essay, not a numberoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2015
Duelling in the desert – the Kiwi wayoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2015
Cecil the lion’s death highlights the fact that humanity is the scourge of a fragile Earthoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2015
This week’s mega short-story challengeoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2015
Why I think ‘track changes’ sucks as an editing tooloriginal ↗
2 Aug 2015
Why the new ‘Earth 2.0’ is more likely to be Venus 1.1original ↗
1 Aug 2015
What is your writing voice? And how to find it.original ↗
31 Jul 2015
‘Desert Duel’: cover reveal!original ↗
30 Jul 2015
Rebuilding from the Stone Age is haaaaaaard…original ↗
29 Jul 2015
Nice blog. Pity if anything, you know, ‘happened’ to it…original ↗
28 Jul 2015
This week’s mega short-story challengeoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2015
Going viral – the problem with authors being discovered on the weboriginal ↗
26 Jul 2015
The Sun’s big. Really big. And really grippy.original ↗
25 Jul 2015
Why short stories lashed together as novels don’t workoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2015
Editing secrets for publishing – line editing and final quality controloriginal ↗
24 Jul 2015
Why history is really a ‘today’ thingoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2015
Do humans see patterns where there aren’t any? Let’s talk…original ↗
21 Jul 2015
This week’s mega short-story challengeoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2015
Editing secrets for publishing – the necessary skills for proof-editingoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2015
It’s winter in New Zealand. I blame Earth’s axial tilt.original ↗
18 Jul 2015
What ‘editing’ means to publishers – and it’s not what you thinkoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2015
Why the Pluto flyby means we need to re-think our view of the solar systemoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2015
What copyright actually means and how it worksoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2015
The next super-short story writing challengeoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2015
Why writing is a performance art, like concert piano playingoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2015
How Pluto got (wrongly) demoted to ‘dwarf’ planetoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2015
The most important writing skill is…original ↗
10 Jul 2015
Heralding the decline and fall of the west, apparentlyoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2015
So Shakespeare wrote terrible jokes, apparentlyoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2015
This week’s mega short-story challengeoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2015
Has anybody got ‘Bored of the Rings’?original ↗
5 Jul 2015
Pluto frenzy is upon us this monthoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2015
Pastoral folk or Wagnerian metal – which music best suits Tolkien?original ↗
3 Jul 2015
If in doubt, throw it out – a motto for writingoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2015
Thanks to E L James’ publicity fail I might have to write Proust fan-ficoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2015
How I went into single combat on TV, intellectually speaking, with Antony Beevororiginal ↗
30 Jun 2015
This week’s mega short-story challengeoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2015
Deep magic from the dawn of humanity: the real appeal of Tolkienoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2015
Is the APA’s ‘internet gaming disorder’ really a fair label for ordinary gamers?original ↗
27 Jun 2015
Beyond epic – how Tolkien broke the rules and wrote a winneroriginal ↗
26 Jun 2015
OK so what does ‘Kindle Unlimited’ author payment by the page really mean?original ↗
25 Jun 2015
‘Battle for Crete’: cover reveal!original ↗
24 Jun 2015
Peter Jackson’s re-definition of awesome – the Gallipoli diorama, close uporiginal ↗
23 Jun 2015
Another super-short mega story writing challengeoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2015
How J R R Tolkien became a best-selling authororiginal ↗
21 Jun 2015
Is Russia stirring up the moon landing loon conspiracies?original ↗
20 Jun 2015
The paradox of Tolkien’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’original ↗
19 Jun 2015
Free is not the answer for selling your e-bookoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2015
A dieselpunk short story writing challengeoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2015
What’s missing from the new publishing paradigmoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2015
Writers are more than just what they writeoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2015
Writing with proper pace – avoiding the thin and stretched problemoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2015
How to use a style sheet as a writing tooloriginal ↗
11 Jun 2015
Is WordPress a blogging platform or a begging platform for writers?original ↗
10 Jun 2015
A super-short mega-story writing challenge, driven by the awesome power of hydrooriginal ↗
8 Jun 2015
Writing skills need to be built from the basicsoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2015
Pushing hard science into historyoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2015
The secret to writing quickly and welloriginal ↗
5 Jun 2015
How much is that book in the window?original ↗
4 Jun 2015
Has fast food made us lazy cooks? You decide…original ↗
2 Jun 2015
This week’s super-short mega-story writing challengeoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2015
How to know which grammar rules to breakoriginal ↗
31 May 2015
The First World War was about sea battles too – especially Jutlandoriginal ↗
30 May 2015
Head-hopping: how writers nail down points of view in their storiesoriginal ↗
29 May 2015
We are all apprentices as writers – aren’t we?original ↗
27 May 2015
What would YOU say to aliens before the apocalypse hits us?original ↗
26 May 2015
Another super-short mega story writing challengeoriginal ↗
25 May 2015
The tale of the Russian terrorist ship, and why you have to buy the bookoriginal ↗
24 May 2015
And now Kiwis are facing a potential mega-quake and tsunami. But of course…original ↗
23 May 2015
Writers – set the controls for the middle of the Sunoriginal ↗
22 May 2015
The secret to writing the same – but differentoriginal ↗
20 May 2015
A Super-Short Mega Story writing challengeoriginal ↗
19 May 2015
Blue Water Kiwis: cover reveal!original ↗
18 May 2015
Chickenosaurus lives! But should we really play God with genes?original ↗
16 May 2015
How to avoid the lure of other people’s ideas in your storiesoriginal ↗
15 May 2015
Writing inspirations – bright skies before a tropical rainoriginal ↗
13 May 2015
Why it’s still ‘Mary Sue’ fan fiction, no matter how it’s clothedoriginal ↗
12 May 2015
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