A new writing project for 2016

All up in the air, I have been

Since I last posted on my little website (three years ago almost? Amazing) I have been to Hong Kong and Japan, and closer to home to Sydney, Canberra and Coolangatta. I have been a traveling man, albeit sporadically, for work and for fun.

Given that it is so long since I posted, I fully expect this shout-out to echo resoundingly into a mostly empty space: surely any vestigial readership I possessed at one time or another is long gone? Nevertheless, I am back, and working on an exciting writing project. In fact, it is potentially my first book, but that particular milestone is still a long way off.

No details yet, it is way too premature, and it is shaping up slowly, but I have been practising the 'freewrite' methodology, and doing 'writing as a practise' advocated by such luminaries as the great Natalie Goldberg. Find her seminal book here, but don't forget to chase up the other things she has written (she apparently hates it when people say to her 'I loved your book', singular, when she has written 14), and drop by nataliegoldberg.com for other goodies. I like the way this particular writer thinks, writes, works and 'is' in the world.

Marcus Baumgart