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2014

The three questions all authors must ask before startingoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2014
Essential writing skills: writing as a whole conceptoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2014
Why ebola puts the zombie apocalypse into proper perspectiveoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2014
Living on shaky ground – out this weekoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2014
My top five writing records…original ↗
21 Sept 2014
Posing the vital question: are writers also readers?original ↗
20 Sept 2014
Essential writing skills: tackling the invisible hurdleoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2014
Ego igitur puniar: my childhood adventures at Nelson Park School, Napieroriginal ↗
18 Sept 2014
Living On Shaky Groundoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2014
Kids books that have totally stuck with youoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2014
Why I run an Apple-free household but am still cooloriginal ↗
13 Sept 2014
Essential writing skills: what I learned from Jack Kerouac about chaptersoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2014
Can we view 9/11 as history? A Hobsbawmian perspective.original ↗
11 Sept 2014
Why celebrity phone hacking is really everyone’s problemoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2014
The real truth of the First World Waroriginal ↗
7 Sept 2014
Close encounters of the meteor kind – this weekendoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2014
Essential writing skills: two steps to kick the muse into actionoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2014
Remembering the dawn of darkness: 75 years since Hitler invaded Polandoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2014
The sadness of those who rage at the worldoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2014
Is high-tech REALLY indistinguishable from magic?original ↗
31 Aug 2014
Star Trek lessons – writing out of the boxoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2014
Essential writing skills: how to make words your servantsoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2014
Revealing possibly the most useful publishing secret everoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2014
Evolving a book into the e-revolutionoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2014
Swearing and cussing? Sirrah! It’s a lot of craven murrainoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2014
Re-conceptualising the publishing problem in the online ageoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2014
Essential writing skills: the secret to getting the writing edgeoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2014
Beware the next Carrington storm – a Q&A wrap-uporiginal ↗
21 Aug 2014
It’s not as a big as it was…reconceptualising publishingoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2014
When tyre-kickers leaf through your books…original ↗
18 Aug 2014
Three rules for naming your fantasy worldoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2014
Essential writing skills: a philosophy for writersoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2014
Getting away from the re-remythologising of historyoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2014
Apocalypse now: why we must fear a Carrington stormoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2014
Fringe thinking fruit-loops or just misunderstood?original ↗
10 Aug 2014
Nine steps to professional publishingoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2014
Essential writing skills: he said, she said – without adjectivesoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2014
Writing prompt: suddenly it was 1938…original ↗
6 Aug 2014
Cool! New Zealand joins the orbital rocket club – for realoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2014
Lamenting the sadness of war, and of New Zealand’s war historiansoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2014
The art of deco hood ornamentsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2014
Essential writing skills: using weather to create a moodoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2014
A small but justifiable rant about international computer phone scammersoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2014
The paradox of Europe’s high-fat, low heart-disease dietsoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2014
Remembering the wars that never endedoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2014
Why it’s so hard for writers to be discovered in the online worldoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2014
Essential writing skills: penning things “in the style of”original ↗
25 Jul 2014
All about the ancient and modern art of book bindingoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2014
A lament to a past that might have been but never wasoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2014
Control your writing inspiration with hidden thinkingoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2014
Tell me – have all the best sci-fi ideas been used?original ↗
19 Jul 2014
Essential writing skills: Weird Al is right to use a split infinitiveoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2014
Busy busy busy busy…with science!original ↗
16 Jul 2014
‘If it’s free, you’re the product’ – and what that means for Facebookoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2014
Essential writing skills: it’s OK to write square mountain rangesoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2014
Announcing my next book on the New Zealand Warsoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2014
Finding another Earth isn’t easy. Unfortunately.original ↗
9 Jul 2014
Science: Nil. Stupidity: 1,000,000,000original ↗
7 Jul 2014
How to win with writing’s digital revolutionoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2014
Essential writing skills: three steps to capturing your readersoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2014
New Zealand and the American Declaration of Independenceoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2014
Is your elected representative a robot body double?original ↗
1 Jul 2014
A glistening quote from the Wellington Writers’ Walkoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2014
The greatest writing challenge of alloriginal ↗
28 Jun 2014
Essential writing skills: harsh sentences for authorsoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2014
Never admit that you’re a writeroriginal ↗
26 Jun 2014
A visit to Makara Beach in the middle of a southern winteroriginal ↗
24 Jun 2014
Sherlock’s public domain – but will writing new stories be elementary?original ↗
22 Jun 2014
Essential writing skills: giving your style eyebrowsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2014
One of life’s great mysteriesoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2014
Remembering ROMBUS and days of future passedoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2014
Visiting Peter Jackson’s amazing cinema in Miramar, Wellingtonoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2014
Will simplifying English just annoy the grammar Nazis?original ↗
14 Jun 2014
Essential writing skills: the hidden key to writingoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2014
No, a chatbot didn’t really pass the Turing Test last weekoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2014
Why the Bismarck myths were – well, mythsoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2014
De-mythologising the ‘invincible’ Bismarck…at last…original ↗
9 Jun 2014
When writing isn’t writing?original ↗
7 Jun 2014
Essential writing skills: counting the beatsoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2014
Seventy years since the battle that shaped our worldoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2014
An ‘operational incident’ to them. Total train wreck to me.original ↗
3 Jun 2014
So is it muddle earth and not Middle Earth?original ↗
1 Jun 2014
Remembering Jutland – and a double family connectionoriginal ↗
31 May 2014
Essential writing skills: giving your sentences that rhythm and twistoriginal ↗
30 May 2014
Flying saucers and other aerial crockeryoriginal ↗
28 May 2014
Shades of character grey and the lessons of Brit seventies sci-fioriginal ↗
25 May 2014
The ethics of copying authors’ stuff onlineoriginal ↗
24 May 2014
Essential writing skills: breaking down the learning journeyoriginal ↗
23 May 2014
Refurbishing with colour and decooriginal ↗
22 May 2014
It’s true. New Zealand Moa once flew. Cool.original ↗
20 May 2014
Inspiring culture – the meta-literature of Tolkienoriginal ↗
18 May 2014
Helping some guy who was having a heart attack – and thoughts on our duty of careoriginal ↗
17 May 2014
Don’t forget to watch TV this Sundayoriginal ↗
17 May 2014
Essential writing skills: three reasons to planoriginal ↗
16 May 2014
Figuring out when a non-invasion happenedoriginal ↗
14 May 2014
Does writing military history mean I must have read war comics?original ↗
12 May 2014
Why we must re-conceptualise writing and book publishingoriginal ↗
10 May 2014
Essential writing skills: five tricks to clarify your writingoriginal ↗
9 May 2014
How I ended up on national TV without noticingoriginal ↗
8 May 2014
Why should we be interested in history? Because we can’t afford not to be.original ↗
7 May 2014
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