January 2021 — round-up of posts

At Hanging Rock

Here is quick summary of the January blog posts (not including Patreon posts).

The starred posts have variants on art and writing exercises and games (tags: writing exercise, art exercise), and the observation journal posts generally can be adapted for those purposes too.

• December 2020 post round-up
• 2020 in review: Things I wrote
• Golden Rays (other people’s ideas, my early sketches, and the final stories)
• First draft theory #2: Hopscotch
• Flyaway! The US edition arrives (so pretty)
• My Dalek and Other Animals
• Creative theory: Shoes that fit
• *What I like in: a Lilian Jackson Braun scene (notes on other people’s art and writing)
• What I liked in: a Michael Innes paragraph (notes on other people’s writing)
• Read and seen — December 2020
• Mother Thorn — book trailer (book by Juliet Marillier, illustrations by me!)
• Observation Journal: The consequences of current events (reassessing work and relaxation habits)
• Flight — to be published by PS Publishing (new book by Angela Slatter, illustrated by me)
• Observation journal — space and time and small epiphanies (reassessing working spaces)
• Beautiful Australian Gothic Books (a post for Tor.com)
• Motivational quotes (or are they)
• 2020 reading (great big list)
• *Observation Journal: 20 ways with gold foil (also a partial process post for Mother Thorn)
• Now panic and freak out (my process)
• February calendar — beside the seaside

For Flight