But generating new material has been off the cards until very Melbourne’s Stage 4 lockdown though, and for some reason my brain loved that I was so anxious and worried the whole year that the last thing I could do wasĭream up people and situations and revel in language.

Writing in a time of covid – has your writing life changed these days? Can you tell us a bit about it?Ģ020 was a time of extreme lack of creativity and imagination! I didn’t expect it, but THE GAPS also allowed me to explore a lot of things around race, inequity and prejudice in a very personal way.

A crime similar to the one in THE GAPS occurred at my high school, and ever since then I’m greatly affected by the regular and heart-breaking attacks and assaults on women that happen in my city. I wrote this book because of the backdrop of violent crimes against women that persisted throughout my youth, and even now. Starting to suspect that’s more my cup of tea.Ĭould you share something about your personal connection to the story you chose to tell in your book? – every books I think, why am I in this place again? Recently though, I’ve beenįocussing more on character development and the protagonist’s journey. Mainlyīecause the amount of restructuring I usually have to do with my work is truly shocking Towards plotting – not fully, but trying to strike a happy medium. I am a natural pantser, who has been trying to move more

Are you a plotter or a pantser? Or something in between? Do you even believe in that ‘plotter Vs pantser’ stuff?

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