I am finally on Kindle! It’s a big deal in a way. I know that some old fusty and dusty literary agents would equate this to ‘Vanity Publishing’ (self-publishing) but I don’t really care....

Well this old drafting process has me beat. Every time I think an episode is shiny and readable I see something new; a subtle change here or repetition to remove there. There really is...

As a relative novice the term ‘Rewrite’ sounded quite horrific when I first heard it. It was spoken as if a writer took a perfectly good story and completely changed it. That is how...

When I left New Zealand more than ten years ago I left with something not knowing its true value. That something was the relationship I had built with my grandparents. You see I am...

When blogging I’ve spent most of my time trying to find some topic to comment on or some tip that I have picked up during my time writing. Recently, with little time, I haven’t...

I have been given permission to reproduce a 500 word submission to the Auckland Star which was written by my maternal grandmother some eighty four years ago. This year marks the century of Nora...

My lack of posting is fairly embarrassing, however I’ve good reason. I’m a changed man. I left for a fishing weekend to County Cork as a young and spritely thirty-something Kerry Muir. I have...

The attention that I give to my writing is intense but it occurs within set small windows of time. Having children around dictates this to a large degree. For example, I will probably give...

Warning: Spoiler’ish and a tad dark. So I would be willing to guess most writers have no trouble ‘killing’ in their work. Whether that be secondary or lesser characters or whether the antagonist gets...