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: Why Mars?

photo courtesy of nbclosangeles.com On February 18, 2021, NASA landed the rover Perseverance on the surface of Mars. Since the beginning of the space program, the question Why? has often been asked. Why spend so much money and time on these programs? And now, when our...

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...