Building Layers

Building Layers

I’m currently working on the latest draft of my second novel, which is a dual timeline set in post-WWI London and fin-de-siècle Vienna, featuring the art and life of Gustav Klimt, and focusing on two women searching for where they belong in the world. My writing day...
Chasing Your Dreams à la Don Quixote

Chasing Your Dreams à la Don Quixote

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams – this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” When Miguel de...
It is Solved by Walking

It is Solved by Walking

My mother and I recently strolled through Cloudehill Gardens in Olinda, enjoying the early autumn leaves on maples and liquidambars, water droplets glistening on lamb’s-ear, glazed blue pots filled with variegated foliage, and burbling water features. Carved into a...
Renewal

Renewal

A lemon-scented eucalyptus stands in the centre of my Melbourne backyard, towering thirty-five metres over the garden, its foliage filling the air with a tangy citrus scent. When spring arrives, the pink bark sheds in curly flakes, scattering across our garden and...
Write What You Know

Write What You Know

Years ago, when I first dabbled with the idea of writing fiction, I read Mark Twain’s advice to ‘write what you know’. However, I didn’t want to write about a former public relations manager, who lived with her family in suburbia, and enjoyed visiting art galleries,...

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