

#5 a teeny milestone
It's been a while. The journey continues...
Shelley Dark
Sep 21, 2021


#4 a quick update....
Just a quick update on my novel..... Last September when I wrote my last blog post, I'd finished the first draft, about the lives of two...
Shelley Dark
Mar 2, 2021


#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

