A Writer’s Road: When to Tell Your Story

A new question unexpectedly popped into my head recently. When is the right time to tell my next story? Initially, I thought that I should wait to tell it, either via a new novel or a play, because we are living in a world where, finally, stories are being told which...

A Writer’s Road: A Howl Book Launch

There is a network of spoken word readings called Howl which brings writers, audiences and spaces together to create one-off ‘pop up’ word events. Howl Cambodia has presented a series of these happenings over the years both in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh,...

A Writer’s Road: Writing Again

Back in May, I wrote a post about my inability to write creatively during what was then the middle of the beginning of the pandemic. You can reread it in its entirety here, but here is one conclusion I drew: Writing creatively takes a huge amount of energy and a real...

A Writer’s Road: Positive Adaptation

We all know the old saying about turning lemons into lemonade. Well, the present global situation is making it difficult for even the most ardent of optimists to accomplish that bit of alchemy. But difficult or not, there is a corner of the human spirit that strives...

A Writer’s Road: Pandemic Prompts

It’s easy to think that all this isolation will breed all sorts of writing. The sparks of creativity might be there, but do you have the energy, both physically and mentally, to actually act on those sparks? I know that I have only been able to focus on writing...