Blair Purvis
Blair Purvis was born in Melbourne Australia, to Scottish immigrant parents - growing up in the city's outer east. Having spent considerable time living abroad in the U.S., Canada and Europe and travelling throughout the Middle East and Asia, he returned to his hometown where learning languages and writing has become his passion. Blair is the author of the Generations series of books, with the debut novel 'Born from Mauritanian Sands' released in 2018.
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Blog postLast week I had a little milestone – completing the revised draft of Book 1. I finally got to write – ‘the end’ (although I won’t include those words in the released version). Woohooo,’ I said to myself in the solitary confines of the Writers’ Studio. Champagne would have been called for, instead, I went downstairs and fixed myself a hot mug of milo.
With the focus on the past year on living, breathing and writing all about the characters and adventures of the first generation, they h3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postWe all have them – areas of discomfort that even talking about them makes us squirm – much less write them down on paper for all read and draw judgement. These escritorial ( I think I made that word up) blindspots are the pages that we skirt around, skim over and fail to tackle with any serious consideration. They remain on the page, half written, trite, vapid and vague – taunting us to revisit and make the text worthy of inclusion in the book. Their constant reminder – that these are i1 month ago Read more
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Blog postMy writing began in October of 2016. Of course, I have been writing long before that but not of any serious nature. It was on my birthday in that year that I decided to start a book called ‘Generations‘. Well, in the first six months, the words just fell out of me and I amassed a decent amount of words on the page – 100K or more. Looking back on those early days, the words I wrote boarded on the putrid and I am thankful that I didn’t rush out and release those early drafts. The book I had in2 months ago Read more
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