When I arrived in Whangarei in August 1992 on a dismasted yacht, I decided that having suffered many mishaps on the boat, each one more severe than the last, that after a dismasting the next event would likely not be survivable, and I left the boat. I took a job near the Town Basin in […]
I have long held that no matter how vitriolic I may feel, it is important to never make that vitriol concrete in the real world. Bad enough to utter unguarded mutterances into the ether, but to give them expression in black and white on paper or blog, is to extend and increase the vitriol and […]
Fine editing your work should start with reading it aloud. Does it flow properly? Do you stumble anywhere? Does your tongue trip over awkward combinations of words. Wherever you hear even a mild hiccup, stop and look at what caused it. It may be as simple as adding, moving, or removing a comma. Sometimes a […]
Writer versus journalist – what’s the difference I’m often asked, especially when I say I’m not a journalist but a writer. A journalist is a recorder and their work is, or should be, strictly informational. They work almost exclusively within news mediums including TV. Perhaps I’m wrong but it seems to me that the journalist […]
Ultimately, it is we who must be served by our own writings and to write for any other reason, invites the internal, ever-vicious critic. Here’s what Virginia Woolf had to say on the subject: Extract from A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf, 1929 I do not believe that even the Table of Precedency, which you […]
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