More on the Mitch Vahldieck saga. Oh, boy!
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Week 13: The joke
Person 1: “I say, I say, I say, what is the secret to successful comedy?” Person 2: “I don’t know, what IS the secret to successful co-“ Person 1, interrupting Person 2: “Timing” Comedy, as with most of life, is a subjective thing. I love the tv show ‘Lucifer’, yet some staunch Southern American Christians…
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Artlan Menzies: rental nightmare
I took in as a lodger a young man who hadn’t had a good start. I thought I was doing the charitable Christian thing. Boy, was I wrong!
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Mitchell Vahldieck: review
What letting Mitch Vahldieck stay in my home was REALLY like (hint: it’s not pretty)
Strine: A wonderfully colourful way of enhancing any communication with a ‘touch of Aussie’. When I first moved to Australia, as a 10 year old, I naturally knew no ‘Aussie’. Sure, we supposedly spoke the same language, English, but there were so many parts of the Aussie sentence that completely baffled me. This was understandable,…
The growth of misinformation perpetrated by ‘bad actors’ is a real and present danger. Whilst Twitter has long been known as a hive of bots (and thus distrusted for years), lately Insta, Facebook, YouTube and even TikTok have witnessed the infiltration of anonymous accounts pushing far-right agendas and ideology. With the growth in the ability…
For a gumshoe, he was dark, brooding and dangerous. His clients, mostly women wanting to catch their husbands cheating on them so they could get the house, were drawn to him like a moth to a flame—a blowtorch of a flame. Their inhibitions disappeared under his flaming sexuality and many women felt stirrings under their…
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Week 9: Fear
I’m scared to write this… Lol. I’ve never written in a style that includes fear. Coming from academic and business writing backgrounds, the use of fear is usually not present. Factuality and optimism (aka ‘spin’) have been my stock in trade. I can see how the use of fear could be a great motivator if…
Can I write succinctly and let the power of my words and sentences transport the reader to where I want them to be and think what I want them to think? I don’t think so. I find it very hard to turn a long piece of writing into something short, I am always wanting to…
A guest lecture with David Waters from Green Hill Publishing made me realise that there are other avenues I can pursue as a part-time writer of bad cyber-crime novels. According to Pete, there are very few buyers of novels in Australia, but far more buyers of self-help and autobiographies/memoirs. Here’s some of my thoughts on…