Looks like two years is not a very long time to be gone. Germany was amazing, a piece of my heart belongs to Berlin, but I'm glad to be home in Australia.

Two years of soul searching and stretching and tramping around in cold, damp and snowy weather has given me a lot of time to reflect.

What does that really mean for my cult reader base?

I purchased a small moleskine notebook in my early days in the city of Werdau, Sachsen. I began to write and fill it with a multitude of story ideas that started flying into my head as I made my way through the dark winter streets of a country still recovering from communism. I met and served with an amazing selection of hilarious and deep people who have seen hardship and sorrow in their lives and had chosen to enjoy life despite it all.

I have ideas. I'm going to write them and post them here.

Let's see what happens.

Don't worry, there'll be explosions and excitement

Okay, so I'm terrible.

Tut mir leid. Sorry. Gomen nasai! I've been working and I don't have internet at my new place. In fact, we've been without internet for the two months we've been living here. Don't get me started on how unhappy I am with that state o...

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Update

I just finished a week of nightshift (2am start, thank you very much) and am buzzing away on multiple story ideas. As such I'm finding it hard to sit down and write one story at one time. I keep on jumping from thing to thing to thing.

>.>

Side note, at least there's now a wealth of little ideas kept in a book so I can start a new book straight away when I land a contract get rejected by a publisher.

I seem to be stuck on science fiction right now...

Southern Master

Well I'm employed now (thanks for the congratulations!-I start my first full day on Wednesday) so I'll have less time for writing...which will result in more pressure on me to write...which will probably mean a lot more writing that what I'm curre...

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Employyyyyeeeed!

So I got the call and I'm employed. I'm heading into the lab today to discuss further details of my shift roster and pay etc (and presumably show my qualifications). IT's huge relief and I should start work for real today, woo!

I'm excited to see what I'll be doing and what it's going to be like and so on...

Interview Aftermath

Just got back from the interview, and I reckon I did pretty well. They asked me the standard questions about how I'd react in certain situations to problems and so on. Weirdly enough those 3-4 years of retail experience came in quite handy and the...

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