asap!

It's so much easier to write and study thanks to the recent arrival of a desk for my glorious computer! I now have a dedicated space to annoy you all from!

When I began this blog, I was endeavouring to document the writing process of book one. However, I finished writing Tellan long ago now, and have stated on many occasion how difficult it is to write about the editing process. It's even harder now Tellan is being queried, there is very little for me to say about it... but its all a part of the process, so I will try my best.

However, maybe its time I talked more about my current project? Part 2. I am endeavouring to pull together a small synopsis and some other thematic bits and pieces to throw up asap! for now though you'll just have to wait. Uni is pretty busy this week so while i promise to provide all of this is the next 72ish hours, i can't be entirely sure that I am not lying.

xox

Young Readers!

It's been such a crazy few months that I nearly forgot to mention what I consider THE coolest opportunity Tellan has given me so far! My Mum lovingly hunted down some Beta readers that were within my target age-range, gave them an old copy of the manuscript and then told them they would have to email me feedback (In the end they insisted on meeting me face-to-face, so I popped into their high-school on my way from Wellington to Dunedin).
It was utterly amazing listening to them rant and rave about all of the characters they loved! I was worried going into the classroom that they would have nothing to say and it would end up being really awkward, but it was epic. They inspired me to go home and finish the round of edits I was working on at that time.

To see the manuscript met with such enthusiasm certainly makes all of the hard-work worth-it!

xx

And this one, woodkid make amazing videos (try 'iron' and 'run boy run' also)

Let this music video inspire you.

Welcome, internet!

 Dunedin!

didn't see that coming? Neither, basically, I decided that  my course was cool, but not exactly what I wanted it to be. I enrolled for film school and got in (which, at the time, I was super stoked about), but then I found myself torn. So, I brought a thirty year old Toyota, enrolled at Otago, now here I am.

It's been a while but I finally have the internet. It was strange living so long without it, (like six weeks!?) but at the same time, I got over it and now I have no idea what to do with it... Updating my blog seemed like a good place to start (I felt weird trying to do this at school so I had to wait, please forgive my negligence).

In this lapse of silence I have written a good third of Tellan's sequel, and Tellan-editing is going really well... Uni has kept me pretty busy, but I keep telling people that I'm going to take my laptop with its sketchy plug to Starbucks and sit there all day drinking coffee and writing like a true hipster (will keep you posted on that one.)

xx