Nix Hamilton's Blog
June 10, 2018
The sanitisation of our kids and the struggle between creative pursuits and earning the dollars
It’s freezing but sunny outside. I had a kick-ass sleep-in till 10:30, which is good, because I was watching a doco on little inuit kids clubbing bunnies to death till 1pm last night. (Like wow– the sanitisation of our kids isn’t a universal thing. Other kids are in war, other kids see death, and while... Continue Reading →
June 5, 2018
When you think that a clean house means things are ok with your woman…
In case you clicked on this and thought that you need to call someone to help me–don’t. True to form, my anxiety levels have skyrocketed because my life is never consistent–itiswhatitis–and for someone like me with generalised anxiety, not being able to rely on things just being things is crazy hard to manage. Currently in... Continue Reading →
March 13, 2018
Work got cancelled… so… happy!
Writing is like digging your hands into a vat of words and finding that some words are stickier than others. Writing is like taking a voyage over unchartered waters, finding in the berth a rodent of unusual size and no food, capsizing in a storm that you didn’t even know was brewing, fending off... Continue Reading →
June 6, 2016
Inward battles
I’m sure it’s a part of the human condition to feel as though life is pulling ahead faster than you’re able to keep the pace. For me,this feeling is stitched into every second of my existence.I feel the urgency and the pace of lifeso acutely, that often my brain is simply swimming with what I … Continue reading Inward battles 
December 17, 2014
where things are at.
Things are at a good place-no-a great place. See, I haven’t received an offer yet from my 15 agents for Red like the Letter, and that’s okay. Because we’re always meant to be writing the next book, right? So, after making my way through half of Red Like the Letter book 2 and realising that […]
August 5, 2014
That amazing feeling of getting a publisher (that I know not of…)
My hubby is living the dream. He’s got a publisher. Like a real, live publisher for his book! I’m so incredibly proud of him because (dot points coming!) 1) He’s […]
April 3, 2014
Writing news
Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K Hessel’s life. There’s no reason for the vid, except that Fight Club is excellent. And I like to include likeable […]
January 18, 2014
And when she woke up … it was all a dream.
Why don’t you watch Robert Pattinson unleash his twilight hate? It’s kind of amusing. To me, anyway. Hopefully, one day, one of the stars in a movie I make will […]
January 16, 2014
Emotional Management
Have you ever just totally smashed your week so full of ‘other’ that the ‘important’ is sacrificed? I’m not talking about double-booking or anything like that. But all of us […]
January 14, 2014
WORD MELODY MAGIC
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They […]
