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Mark J. Keenan

WRITER, RUNNER, ENGINEER

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    Mark J. Keenan
    • Apr 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Meditate. Move. Read. Write. Listen. Be.

    These were the first six words I wrote on beginning my residency at the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre last week. And they stayed, pinned to my ...
    Mark J. Keenan
    • Jul 26, 2017
    • 1 min

    Sometimes, I write fiction.

    Occasionally, I let people read it. I am currently working on my first, full-length, fiction manuscript. It's challenging, and sometimes frustrating, creatin...
    Mark J. Keenan
    • Mar 18, 2017
    • 2 min

    This is a door

    But it’s not just any door. Not at all, because it is the door to one of the retreat cabins at Katharine’s Place, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Ce...
    Mark J. Keenan
    • Jan 17, 2017
    • 3 min

    Listen to your broccoli

    A splash of routine, a pinch of process and a dash of intuition. This is the recipe that I am hoping will create a successful second draft of my manuscript. ...
    Mark J. Keenan
    • Jan 8, 2017
    • 2 min

    bird by bird

    At 11:40 PM on New Years Eve, I was reading. My wife was next to me on the couch catching Pokemon, my 19 year old son was having a snooze and my 14 year old ...
    Mark J. Keenan
    • Dec 14, 2016
    • 2 min

    Running and writing in the forest

    John Forrest National Park, on the eastern edge of Perth, is Western Australia’s oldest national park. It is a beautiful place with two natural waterfalls, s...
    Mark J. Keenan
    • Dec 11, 2016
    • 4 min

    Slaying the NANO-beast

    NANOWRIMO, you are a foul-smelling beast, wretched in your hunger for words, eating at my soul, devouring all my time, awakening me in the dead of night...bu...
    Mark J. Keenan
    • Dec 1, 2016
    • 1 min

    FREE stories. Seriously, click here now.

    FREE stories. Yes, really, they are FREE! If you are desperately excited to get to the FREE (yes, FREE!) stories then please click here and enjoy: Amazon Aus...
    Mark J. Keenan
    • Oct 27, 2016
    • 1 min

    Reading: The Fireman, by Joe Hill

    Harper Grayson had seen lots of people burn on TV, everyone had, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school. Pow! Joe...