

#3 How long does it take to write a novel?
A few of you have asked me when my novel will be finished. Good question. Poor answer: I don't know! Let me explain by sharing my...
Shelley Dark
Sep 19, 2020


#2 Hooked...
I just love this place where I sit to write. I'm not distracted by the huge fig trees at my back.....
Shelley Dark
Aug 12, 2020


#1 Writing the novel
Thank you so much for being interested in the process of my novel writing. It's been a journey (both physically and mentally!), and some...
Shelley Dark
Jul 23, 2020


#5 the end of the road
When I left my guardian angel Trish in Braidwood on Tuesday afternoon, I was in a hurry. I'd intended to buy a takeaway dinner in...
Shelley Dark
Mar 6, 2019


#4 Gold at Braidwood
Promising to speak soon, Trisha and I hugged goodbye on Tuesday morning after breakfast, and I left Bobundara for Braidwood on my next...
Shelley Dark
Mar 4, 2019


#3 The old house
Bobundra breakfasts include freshly juiced grapefruit, orange, carrot, ginger, beetroot and turmeric. One glass of this delicious purple...
Shelley Dark
Mar 3, 2019


#2 Bobundara
What a great few days! How fabulous to have the chance to visit Monaro to see for the first time the vastness of that amazing treeless...
Shelley Dark
Mar 2, 2019


#1 Monaro
In the last post about Tassie, I said I'd have a surprise in a couple of weeks. Nous voici! I didn't ever dream that I'd start writing a...
Shelley Dark
Feb 21, 2019


#14 Pumphouse Point. The end.
And so to the final leg of our journey - from Strahan on the west coast, through Queenstown to Pumphouse Point, then on to Hobart to fly...
Shelley Dark
Feb 10, 2019


#13 Strahan
After spending a lifetime of summers in sticky muggy Queensland, it's hard to imagine a better destination at this time of year than...
Shelley Dark
Jan 29, 2019


#12 Cradle Mountain
The very name Cradle Mountain has its own magic cachet. Because of excellent marketing? As significant as we'd been led to believe? We...
Shelley Dark
Jan 29, 2019


#11 Stanley and the west coast
We drove to Stanley along the pretty undulating coastal hills which at first drop precipitously to the sea. In flatter country, we...
Shelley Dark
Jan 27, 2019


#10 Launceston to Burnie and beyond...
Since we left you last at Launceston, we've covered the north-west of Tassie - easy to do in a short time because the distances are so...
Shelley Dark
Jan 26, 2019

