Still Life With Cat

Sometimes if you're lucky there's a moment, when you're working on a first draft, trying to turn it into a second draft, that co...

From today's Crikey: 'Iran's cover up. Baroness Ashton, the EU Foreign Minister, has been given a more modest neckline in Ira...

As though the tragicomic episode a few years back about the Boy Who Everyone Thought Was but Turned Out Not To Be Tony Abbott's Son (so ...

When writing first drafts I will usually bung in instructions to myself as I go along, most often [CHECK] where I have relied on memory for ...

It's a witty, funny, fast-paced book with some grit and some edge and it's the sequel to a best-seller, but I'm only up to page ...

So when I got home this afternoon from fifteen rounds with a sibling -- the ferocious upfront one, all teeth and claws all the time, and no ...

Wow, a two-week hiatus. I don't think I've not-blogged for that long since I started in October 2005. For some reason this time of y...

I started this post two days ago and have been dithering about putting it up ever since, but I've counted no fewer than five articles an...