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What I would have liked to write for Jedda

18 June 2021 | Writing The Guy from the Internet was an odd personal experience. It’s the first time I’ve ever drawn so much from real life for my fiction work. And one side-effect of trying to cram so much in was that I didn’t get to dig into all the elements I would have liked.

Real life events that have inspired my writing

21 May 2021 | “Write what you know,” the experts will tell you. I was not one for good advice when I started writing The Guy from the Internet, but I somehow ended up going down that road anyway. And today, I’m going to tell you a bit about that.

Yummy Aussie bushfoods

21 May 2021 | We have a very hot food trend going on here at the moment — Aussie bush tucker. It started a few years ago and has seen some pretty consistent growth in popularity here in Perth, though I understand it’s happening all across the country.

My blue oyster mushrooms

2 May 2021 | I am simultaneously excited and creeped out by my new blue oyster mushroom crop. Here are a couple of photos (behind the cut) so you can enjoy this confusing excitement-squick feeling too.

On location: Mount Lawley, Perth

2 April 2021 | I don’t talk much about Mount Lawley in The Guy from the Internet, save for late in the piece where, admittedly, it sounds a little desolate. But that’s just Holly’s hangover talking — I promise.