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A writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. ~ Junot Diaz
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A Chinese descendant born and raised in Jakarta, Maria McDonald migrated to Brisbane in 1995.
Always fascinated with imaginary worlds, her love of reading from a young age turned to concocting alternative plots and endings to movies, TV series and books (what if Athos had a daughter in the movie version of ‘The Man In The Iron Mask?’; would it be possible for me to write a sequel to Jodi Picoult’s ‘The Pact’ and give the male protagonist a different ending?).
In late 2006, what had started as a quick scribble of a vivid dream grew to a 15,000-word story in a matter of days – by far the longest essay Maria had ever written. Currently revising her four-part book series focussing on the life of a biracial young woman, she hopes to explore ever-prevalent topics such as bullying, racism, platonic friendship, relationship (of every kind), grief, and many others.
Maria holds a Bachelor of Business (Communications) degree and has worked in an education setting for almost 17 years.
She lives with her husband and an extremely adorable Jack Russell x Maltese dog, and currently calls Manila her ‘semi-permanent’ home.
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Recent Posts
- The ‘Dream’ That Started It All (Sprinkle of Information – Part 1)
- Wouldn’t Be The Worst Thing…
- #TBT – One of the Christmas Classics
- ‘Corn Cob’
- Fattening the Seeds and Writing Out of Sequence
- Translating An Imagined Scene To Flowing Words…
- Rumble
- #TBT – Things We Don’t Normally Do Or See In The Big City
- A Window to The ‘Happenings’ Inside My Head…
- Two Kings
- Through the Lens of Babel…
- The ‘Grocery Store’ Incident
- Book Review: Babel by R. F. Kuang
- #TBT (Throwback Thursday) – Our Brush With A ‘Celebrity’
- Unperturbed
- A Few Things Our Dog Has Taught Us…
- A Castle, Or A High School?
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