The human parts of bringing a side project to life.
Moving Countries
In late 2019 we moved countries, from Australia to New Zealand. We’re a bit of a menagerie, two adults, two teens, one grandma (grandmas are special and get their own category rather than just being rolled anonymously in with the rest of the adults), three cats, one dog, and a collection of thirty two teddys.
The teddys missed the worst of the move. They very sensibly came across the Tasman at a civilised pace on a container ship, arriving long after the cats had finished their campaign of terror and revenge attacks on innocent ankles. A year later they still retreat, hissing, if they happen to see the pet transport cages.
Writing again wasn’t really on the agenda, but somehow, when we arrived here, I found a spare hour or two over a couple of days. Completely unexpectedly a few chapters of Guardbot’s back story just fell out onto the computer. (Note from May 2021 — stories that are easy to start are sometimes hard to finish, the rest of Guardbot’s story took 18 months.)
I don’t really know why sometimes the stories just flow. At that point, we were in a 49 square metre (I measured) apartment on the 26th floor of an anonymous building overlooking Auckland harbour. The view was spectacular, inspiring, and in no way at all…
