My editor, Shel Sweeney from A Worded Life, will have her expert eyes all over Indie Outback this month! Scary and exciting. So close to grant acquittal month. So close to having the plot holes patched, spelling and grammar shining... More
May already! Where did the time go? Indie has found a flow in book two and three now and the strings of the story are tying together. I have been writing at night when little Ms 5 goes to bed-... More
It was really deadly winning one of the Blak&Write Fellowships for 2020 with my picture book series, Backyard Sports. The idea for the books came to me on a long drive between Halls Creek and Broome. I was thinking about... More
Indie is struggling to find her feet in book number 3. This month I jumped between book two and book three to try to make the story flow across all three books and make sure the storyline flowed. A really... More
Back in the swing of things- I’m working casually teaching this year, running a small online business with Carl and we are both writing… as well as, you know, life. The juggle and the struggle are real! I’m plodding along... More
Another busy month of writing the Indie Outback Series thanks to the Arts Council of Australia Funding I received last year. Book two is well underway. It has been a really interesting process: Writing alone without Carl Writing my first... More
I’ve been working on Indie for 6 months now thanks to the support of the Arts Council of Australia- 2020 Resilience Create Grant. Indie is due to be finished end of May this year- and I have two books to... More
For those who haven’t been following along, I’m Hakea Hustler- teacher and author. In 2020 I was awarded an Arts Council of Australia- 2020 Resilience Create Grant for the creation of Indie Outback my first solo middle reader series. My... More
For those who are new to our blog, I’m Hakea Hustler. In this post series I have been sharing the journey of writing Indie Outback- my first solo middle reader series- thanks to the Arts Council of Australia 2020 Resilience... More
As you might have read previously, I was awarded a Create grant through the Arts Council of Australia- 2020 Resilience program. I’ve been blogging about the journey writing this middle reader series. This year has been ‘unprecedented’ during a ‘global... More