In the grit (Reasons I withhold poetry)
When your lawyer forbids you from writing poetry, lol
Have you ever been woken by a turn of phrase?
All the drinking I have ever known is merely distraction from drowning.
Writing about Writing
A stand-alone section for those interested in craft with a tikanga | Te Ao Māori lens
I will never sit on a panel at a writer’s festival and say that the act of writing is anything but spiritual.
When I think about that day, I often think about those people. I think about how it must feel to stand on the periphery of someone else’s terror and then get in your car and drive home.
Okay, after months of deliberation, I'm finally making the move to Substack (Why?)
If I’m honest, I just want to write. But if I don’t publish, it’s like I’m missing something integral in the process of creation.