Some time ago I started a blog to chart the creation of a new novel. The idea was to follow the ups and downs in writing—the long drawn out pauses between frantic flurries of activity that make up the writing of a larger work into something that might be something of a success.
That same novel, [...]

Digging around in some of the backwoods of my computer’s hard drive, I came across a writing CV last opened and modified on 31st October, 1999. I was a little surprised at the date on this file. You see, back in 1999, I had no writing credits. I was yet to be published anywhere and [...]

This is the redraft. I think the differences speak for themselves. Probably.

When your self-esteem is shattered by harsh reality, can stories save you?
Here Today is a contemporary novel that follows a young occupational therapist’s locum stint in a Brisbane hospital. Astrid is rootless and restless in her life — unable to commit, unable to settle. [...]

So here’s the synopsis written for my first novel, the older version that feels a little laboured and floppy. I think I wrote this under pressure of a deadline and it shows. It smells of desperation. Please, please, please make this novel about something, damnit!

When your self-esteem is shattered by harsh reality, can stories save [...]

Well, there it is. The synopsis is now out ‘in the wild’, as they say. It seems strange to put out so much information about a novel that exists only as a manuscript on someone’s desk (not mine).
I wanted to put it up on the web site though, partly to prove to myself that I [...]