On writing
Every writer writes an ‘on writing’ piece. So here’s mine.
Last week in Melbourne, I went to a writer’s festival that didn’t have real writers.
There was an animal high priestess, a medium who talks to dead pets. There was an attempt to communicate sonically with bats and I thought I spotted an imaginary seal that could balance bowling balls on its nose but was only doing this to support himself while working on his novel.
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