Dear reader, If there is anything I have learned over the past several years, it is that I am very good at rewriting things. My current book (the not-so-well-loved, often-times-bemoaned novel Extinguish), is on it’s ninth draft, and second edit. When I refer to drafts, I talk about major rewrites and overhauls. That doesn’t include all the little (and by little I mean the entire book) edits I did of each draft. This time, I’ve decided to shift a pivotal event to a later point in the novel, and to also cut a central character. I still have to rewrite the new ending (I canned the old one in draft…
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Dear Reader, We haven’t formally met, and we probably never will. At least not in person. But let me express here an now, how very honoured I am to enter into this magical experience of telepathy with you. To me, this is what being a writer is all about. It’s about the words, it’s about the readers, and it’s about the telepathy. The magic. Stephen King talks about this idea best in his book On Writing. What we are doing, is engaging in a one-way form of telepathy. One that transcends time and space. Here I am, sitting on my lounge room couch somewhere in Queensland, Australia, still in my pyjama’s. There’s a half-cup…