Tag: australia

28 May 2023

Week 12: Australiana, you’re soaking in it

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, and equivalent to foreigners—even those with a good grasp of […]

15 May 2023

Week 7: Writing something other than a cybercrime novel (badly)

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 what else I can do, right now… In fact, I […]