Most of the time all a mean (or kind) face tells you is what their mum and dad looked like. Don’t judge a book by its parent’s genes.
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Thoughts
“You can’t be what you can’t see… we need to see more brown-skinned faces in books.” Choice korero from Paula Morris & Anita Heiss – Author – same goes 4 authors names ON books. Dam Native showed me that as a Māori, I could rap. Patricia Grace showd me I could write stories. Do the things. #NZWritersForum
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Imagine, dream, create.
And the army has to get the dragon and the dragon has to get the army and whoever climbs up the rainbow and slides down the fastest gets the golden trophy. – Huhana, four. Dear Huhana and Kāhu o te Rangi, Once upon a night, someone you know wrestled control of their life back from an …
Much love
Shout outs to all my loved ones who are going through some stuff, and have put their hand up and said they need help. Whether it’s counselling, rehab, crying to a mate – reaching out takes strength, it shouldn’t, but that’s the world we live in until we change it. You’re inspiring others who might …
Stories you can’t write
“There are stories that you can write, and there are stories that you can’t write. And, in the end, you write the ones that you can, and that allows you to bear the ones that you can’t. There’s nothing, I think, particularly upsetting about that — it’s simply a strategy of survival. And it’s also …
Do it for love
I just spent a chunk of the money from ‘The Man Who Writes the Dreams’ sales having it assessed by Chris from TFS – Total Fiction Services – that’s something you would usually do to revise and rework a manuscript before publishing, not after, but I wanted to know what I could have done better …
Dear Pera, speak more Māori
Choice korero on Kāpiti tonight about giving yourself permission to speak Māori even if some people in the room don’t understand. Our children seeing and understanding Māori as normal and OK, has as big or bigger positive impact than the inconvenience factor of an audience needing to listen twice, firstly to ngā kūpu Māori (Māori …
The second print run of my book The Man Who Writes the Dreams is here!
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Everyone is going through something.
Nobody has it perfect, that fact that you can’t see what’s going on doesn’t mean it’s not real. And remember everyone has a different pain threshold. Their challenges might seem easy to you. Equally, the worst day you’ve been through is a holiday compared to what other people are going through. We all have a …
Books worth reading: Daily Rituals – Mason Currey
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey is definitely a book worth reading. There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration, that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo from who knows where. But I hope my work makes it clear that waiting for inspiration is a terrible, …
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