November has seen an interesting
turn in my writing life. I’ve written before about trying to find time, and
various other aspects of how I get my writing on. But a few things have changed
in November and I thought it was worth writing about it.
I’ve been thinking recently about
how I’m addicted to story. I don’t think I’m the only one. In fact, ‘Story’ is
how many of us make sense of everything. I’m not just talking about books,
films and television. I mean it all. From our work lives to grocery shopping.
From friendships and family to strangers we meet. The fascinating to the banal.
It all makes up a story. Our brains put everything into a sequence to help us
understand it. Beginning, middle, end.
Iam a hoarder. Of all kinds of things. My cupboards hold
some of the most strange and innocuous collections. This is a blog post was originally
written for the National Year of Reading (i.e. 2012), and is to showcase a
sample of a different kind of collection: my collection of quotes. I decided to
revise it and post it again on my new blog, as it no longer appears on the blog
it was created for.
I'm Michael, a book-obsessed author with a love of children’s and young literature. I’ve read it, sold it, blogged about it, studied it and written it. Here’s where I’ll be writing about the literary goings-on in my life.
I'm the editor of Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories which will be released in June 2019 by Walker Books Australia.
