Five mornings a week (weather permitting) you’ll find me out on the streets of downtown Bowen and when I return to base it’s a case of turning what I’ve managed to nut out over the course of the preceding hour or so into something that’ll appear on these pages. On a good day that can translate into between eight hundred and two thousand words of usable content.
Most of the recent writing activity has ionvolved blogging, reviewing and cranking out the remainder of a fiction project (Zen and the Art of Locating the Real Australia) but there are two significant non-fiction endeavours I'm about to switch my attention back to.
Interesting Times is an examination of themes and events over the past sixty years, sorting them into a wider context - the collapse of the five Cs I see as characterising the society in which I grew up. Much of what’s currently included is drawn from the ubiquitous Google and the Wikipedia as I've taken my recollections, checked with on-line sources to get the chronology and proceeded from there, adding detail as I run across relevant material in the course of my reading.
Little House of Concrete Non-Fiction also houses the in-progress details of Hughesy’s North Queensland, an ongoing investigation of historical and geographic matters relating to the North. I'm often intrigued by the stories of the places we pass as we head along the highways and byways, and the morning walk tends to also produce musings on my own experience of living in the North, which will also find their way over here.
