It’s my fondest dream, that one day my ridiculously talented child will say that everything he knows about writing he learned from me.
Yes, it would be reflected glory, but you take what you can get, right?
I’m super proud that he has again been shortlisted in the Somerset Novella Writing Competition. He submitted a crime thriller, called Red Ridge, White Snow, and was one of four shortlisted entries from the ACT, NSW and Western Australia.
A crime thriller? Wasn’t his story last year an historical mystery with a fantasy twist? Well, yes, but he likes playing around with genre, and he took some advice on writing from a workshop with Sulari Gentill – that it’s always good to start with a murder.
And, well, that means he definitely didn’t learn everything he knows from me….
Ssssssss-boom! Another dream crashes and burns.
But at least there’s fireworks from the impact.
And I am so very pleased for him.