SEB BECKER

20200221 Well, didn’t January pass quickly! Summer is way behind us —at least here where I live in Tasmania (averaging about 16C most days)— and the bushfire...

20191227 Well, here we are at the other end of the month. Christmas has been and gone and hot cross buns are in the stores (if you haven’t been to the shops ...

20191202 Well! This year did not go to plan. Dealing with a cancer diagnosis and writing a new unit for a new course took its toll on my mental and physical ...

20190119 Welcome to 2019 and I hope the first four weeks have been kind to you. While writing is in most instances a lone game, finding your tribe is somethi...

20181221 It is that time of year again when everyone is charging around like headless chooks, trying to get into the holiday spirit. The pressure is on to ca...

25 November - As a last-minute decision, I joined the National Novel Writing Month (https://nanowrimo.org), a worldwide event where writers aim to reach 50,0...

October 29 – Four weeks ago I said it was time to get serious. My first step was to reach out to two authors on a new Facebook group I joined last month, and...

October 2018 - Well, it’s been 12 months since I bought the cover for my first book. While I could write any number of books – I have a lot of stories to tel...

July 2018 - Two weeks after my last post — seven months ago — I was diagnosed with a chronic, no current cure, cancer. To say I fell into a deep dark abyss i...

Christmas 2017 - Well, it’s that time of year. The time when we glance over our shoulder and wonder where on earth the year went! Glancing back it is hard to...

November 2017 - I’ve had a couple of lots of visitors, and the end of the academic year busyness to help meld one day into another. I’ve also had some sad new...

There is nothing like talking a problem through with a trusted counsel to help you see the forest for the trees. After a couple of months of angst and ‘can I...

October 2017 - Well, it’s been a good week here, and now it is the weekend, and a sunny, spring day (I’m in Australia, remember), the lawnmowers are flat out...

October 2017 - Once again it has been a while since my last post. A myriad of reasons why, of course. I would love to say that I have just been too busy. Whi...

August 2017 - Writing a book is not as easy as it sounds. I know –  it probably doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work that out. However, when I say it isn’...

While I have always wanted to be an author, life was full on in… well, life! I have had all-consuming careers that did not confine themselves to 8, or even 1...