My first novel, The Edge of Darkness, had a heroine of Filipino descent. She was the daughter of immigrants to Australia. I’m hyper aware of the issue of race. In my writing, the race issue if often softened because above being Filipino, Max was Australian. Australia is a very diverse country. At least 20% ofContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Day 3: The Issue Of Race”
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NaNoWriMo Day 2: Strange Subconcious
After achieving my word count yesterday hubs and I had cuddles while watching Heroes and Firefly. I wanted to do some more writing but as hubs is fond of saying, there’s a fine line between cuddling someone and holding them down so they can’t escape. So I gave up on writing anything more yesterday (I’dContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Day 2: Strange Subconcious”
NaNoWriMo Begins! The Soundtrack Edition
Hey kittens. Today marks the beginning of NaNoWriMo 2011 and as such, I’m sharing my playlist for the month. Normally when I write, I can only listen to instrumental music, and it has to be something relatively new so I don’t recognise melodies and get distracted by the familiarity and start singing along. Which hasContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Begins! The Soundtrack Edition”
NaNoWriMo 2011 and changing the blog schedule
NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. It’s held every November and the aim is to write a 50K words novel is 30 days. My first attempt was last year, where I wrote The Edge of Darkness. This year I’m going to do Tina Storm’s first full-length novel, which as yet doesn’t have a title. InContinue reading “NaNoWriMo 2011 and changing the blog schedule”
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