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What binds us together is stronger than what is trying to drag us apart
Waiho te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa (on the 5th anniversary of the Covid-19 lockdowns).
Slowing The Sun
A 2-min video 'splainer
Is it time you started a newsletter?
Unconventional tips that might actually be useful
What are the chances the language you're looking for is already inside you?
An essay in search of (climate change) meaning
I'm just a call away
A tangi is a parade of love. People are there one minute, then they're gone.
How it feels to publish your first book
A photographic essay
Antidote to Silence: Laughter
What's the best thing we should look for in a potential partner?
Where I've been (and why so quiet)
Looking back, knowing what I know now about the overwhelming pressure of bringing a book into the world, I'm not surprised I went to ground. I even stopped writing in my journal.
We're still here <3
It's easy from this vantage point of the Gregorian year to see all the things we didn't do.
The haka you just watched was set in motion decades ago
A small piece of historical context for one great haka (some context for international audiences)
Summer is home again
A few offerings that have sustained and given me joy in the last few weeks.
Artificial Intelligence cannot...
Why would you want better when you can have real?
Essays
But what can *I* do?
And other myths about your lack of power.
Tips & Inspiration
We create what others need
Discussing the process feels like a possible jinx, and I suspect that this is at least part of reason people tend to be hidden and secretive.
Essays
Giving a shit
It's the first time I've felt my empathy turning into something solid and shameful.
The seasons keep turning
In my experience, grief always has the capacity to surprise you. In both beautiful and unbearable ways - sometimes at the same time.
Tips & Inspiration
You gotta not doubt it
Writing is only one of the tasks of writing, the other is believing that you can and should and have something worthwhile to say.
Tips & Inspiration
Should you do a writing course?
And if you can't, here's some suggestions.
"We kill our own with the weapons of the enemy"
On the perilous role of the reviewer
Essays
Writing hack to defeat the doubt
How do you stay engaged when the process isn't fun? How do you keep the faith when you feel like everything you write is shit?
Tips & Inspiration
A concrete block on a dream
No book emerges without some kind of external support or sacrifice or privilege.
Poppin' off Pānui
Poppin' off Pānui 11: Words to survive by
How can we relate? Always, it's the poets who show us.
Essays
19 on the Mean Streets (a forgiveness poem)
Creative tip: write your journals in verse!!!