Joanne Anderton

Recently? Eaten a LOT. Drunk way too MUCH. And enjoyed every minute of it, thank you.

Somehow I felt like I’ve deserved it. The end of the year has been a bit of a battle. Mix up novel revisions with a bout of the flu and a bad back and what else could you call it, [...]

That’d be me. What is it about this time of year? It’s like a giant time-sucking black hole has opened up above my house and it’s vacuuming up the rest of the year while I’m sitting here, typing away furiously and otherwise shaking my fist at it.

Whew. Don’t worry, I have coffee and I’m not afraid [...]

Say you’re writing a short story, or a book, and that little internal editor voice starts nattering away. How do know when to listen to it, and when to throw stuff at it until it shuts up?

Ever had that “I already knew this” feeling, when looking through your beta-reader’s notes? Like, if you’d just listened [...]

So, I’m incubating a novel. This wasn’t an unplanned novel incubation, so the symptoms aren’t all that surprising. I knew the story I wanted to write next. I have worldbuilding ideas scribbled in a notebook and I met the main character and her dog a few months ago. But only recently, like in the past [...]

My writing buddy and Toughest Critiquer Ever (TM), Rabia Gale, and I were having a serious discussion about serious topics the other day. We talked about the difference in the legal drinking age in Aus and the US, and the impacts of problem drinking. This led to a dissection of the social pressures behind things [...]