I wonder how many expats who have settled here in Indonesia have found that after all the false starts back ‘home,’ they finally got the oomph needed to see it through – the first novel, I mean.
I got going early on, been here over a decade now, and since then have turned out – critics might say churned out – seven books, all fiction, one of them a collection of Indonesian and Canadian ghost stories, the others 200-page novels.
There’s something about the tropics that may sap the…