I was interviewed by Kirsten Krauth over at her excellent blog Wild Colonial Girl about the creative life and how one goes about it with so many responsibilities.
Here’s a tiny excerpt:
How has your blog influenced your other writing, your novels, your nonfiction, your poetry?
KA: It’s made me more open to the value of flash/shorter fiction for starters! It’s made me realise much quicker the greater potential an idea might lend itself to having, i.e whether it would be better to make a blog post out of something or turn it into a poem. For example, a day I had at the park years ago could’ve been easy to turn into a post along the lines of ‘We Had A Crap Day At The Park – Let Me Whine About It To You’. But I knew there was more to it than that. So I turned it into a poem — and it went on to win a literary award.
As I feel the squeeze of life, I do try to remember the blog byline ‘Trying to find the objective correlative, everyday’ when I post or meditate about what to write about next. I like how it resonates with others too. There are days I feel like a bit of a failure; then others I think I’m doing okay.
