I write for my living, and one way and another, it is a full and pleasant life. I put these pages together to provide background material for people who want to know more about what makes me tick. Lots of writers refer to themselves jokingly as wordsmiths, but most of the time, we don't actually make the words — we just capture them in the wild, wrestle them into shape and force them into place. I face the most unruly words, and I force them to obey my will. Writing is about telling stories, word herding is about selecting, culling and managing words, telling stories in a coherent way, and that is what I try to do. So I am a word herder.
- Monsters (completed) — 2009. Keep watching to see what happens.
- What happens when ingenuity goes mad? I'm looking to see but here's a sample. Sheesh!!
- Two other niche histories are in the planning stages: one related to a science, one related to commodities. We will see what happens.
- There was a big YA historical fiction project on the go, but I have set it to one side, at least for now.
Available for talks
I can talk about most things (and often do), but I am mainly useful for talking about writing and researching science and history, and about writing for radio and the content of whatever I have been writing. Contact me direct. I'm in the Sydney phone book. You can find me on Twitter, Flickr, Webshots, LiveJournal and a few other places as McManly. I'm on Facebook and Goodreads as me.This file is http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/writing/index.htm. You can also get it as http://tinyurl.com/c5ula6
It was last revised on June 9, 2009, but there are usually fresher pages hanging off this one — I tend to update them and leave this one alone.
Unless otherwise indicated, all materials shown here are free of any copyright restrictions, and I can usually be talked out of any I impose, if it is for a good cause. Try me.
It was created by Peter Macinnis -- macinnis@ozemail.com.au (but mail to that address will BOUNCE. To really get in touch, you need to add my first name at the start of the address
I mainly get spam on that other account, and I may take a while to get back, or even miss you. Humans can work out how to get the real address, address-harvesting robots can't :-)
people have been here.
Not Peter McInnes, Peter McInnis, Peter Macinnes, Peter Maginnis, Peter McGuinness, Peter McGuiness, or Peter Magennis. (Bittersweet or Rockets or The Killer Bean of Calabar, known in the USA as Poisons or Australia's Pioneers, Fools and Heroes)