Old writer on the block

The writing diary of a well-mellowed science writer who cares about the public understanding of science and knows the ropes. This blog bounces between my curiosity, the daily realities of professional writing, the joy of pursuing nature, and my recycling of ideas that won't be in some book or other as far as I can see, but still needed sharing. I welcome comments and suggestions! Spam will be blocked and reported. For my books, see http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/writing/index.htm

Sunday, 15 October 2017

A bouquet of scammers

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This is an excerpt from (and promo for) my recent Kindle e-book,  Not Your Usual Clever Ideas   ( https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B072BCKBVQ )...
Thursday, 28 September 2017

Sandstone facts

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Hawkesbury sandstone, Fairlight Sydney, showing bedding, cross-bedding and vertical joints. The city of Sydney is the child of its geo...
Saturday, 23 September 2017

Human intelligence

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Whoops: long silence!  Look, I'm busy on Not Your Usual Science , so here's an excerpt from that. We would all agree that humans ...
Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Darwin's error

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This is a small excerpt from a new book, probably to be called Background to Science . Drawing on a lifetime of writing essays, articles a...
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Wednesday, 16 August 2017

Wattle Day

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Traditionally, Wattle Day in New South Wales has always been August 1.  A few years ago, the Canberra bureaucracy changed it to September 1...
Thursday, 3 August 2017

A fishy tale

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Frank Buckland (Wikimedia Commons)    Get me down my filling knife,    Get me down my stock    Get me down my filling knife,    W...
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Monday, 31 July 2017

Introducing my 'Not Your Usual' series.

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I have been a life-long scribbler, and I have been publishing books since 1971, at a rate of better than one a year. During that time, publi...
Saturday, 22 July 2017

The Great North Head Calamity

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Just a note: you can get this story and much more in a dead-tree book called The Nature of North Head . The price depends on whether you wa...
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Peter Macinnis
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Peter Macinnis turned to writing after his promising career as a chiaroscuro player was tragically cut short by a caravaggio crash during the Trompe L'Oeil endurance race. He recently did remarkably well in the early rounds of the celebrity underwater cooking program, Moister Chef, but he was disqualified for using dried fruits and desiccated coconut. He has a pet leech named Gladys, which has lived in a container on his desk for the last six months, as part of another book, and he is an expert echidna handler and ant lion wrangler. He wrote both the score and the libretto for the acclaimed opera Manon Troppo.

Sorry, that’s not quite right. I write and sometimes broadcast about science, for young and old. I write mainly about science, environment, or social history for both adults and children, depending on how the fit takes me on a given morning. I usually have one book coming back after editing or in production, one being edited, one being written and one or more being actively researched.
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