Thunder Road

When The Big Day Out is held at the Melbourne Showgrounds, I can hear chunks of the artists on the main stage from my yard - depending on which way the wind blows.

The biggest story in the world today is the inauguration of the new American president.

When Spiderman’s Peter Parker gets an inkling that something villainous is going down, his “spider-sense” tingles. I like to think I have a story-sense that operates in a similar way.

Having imagined a character into existence, one of the tricks authors use to keep their creation interesting is to put them under pressure.