About Marcus & his goings-on.

Marcus is moving through life solo, and is happy to be that way. Or is he? Why yes, he is. Probably.

Marcus writes. He has been writing for love and money for more than twenty years. Writing, thinking, lots of reading too. Speculating, certainly…about various things.

Over the last fifteen years he has articulated an uncertain manifesto of architecture, but he doesn’t want you to take that too seriously (and indeed, nor should you.)

The manifesto hints at a book that has not yet been written, but it appears in fragments on a drip feed. The name of the book keeps changing, as does the central thesis.

Marcus is interested in architecture as the the day job is in that field. He mostly does social projects like community housing, crisis accommodation, and aged care. Plus education projects and the occasional house.

Some of Marcus’ other writing is fiction, but he is a bit discombobulated by that stuff and only works on it intermittently. He only likes a small fraction of the fictional scribblings he has penned, but he perseveres. On occasion, verse and poetry happen to him.

At the other end of the writing game is Marcus the hired gun: writing for competitive bids, grant applications and tenders. He’s done this for twenty years, for money mostly, not really for love. Persuasion and strategy in equal measure are a fun challenge, though, so maybe a bit of love is in there.

All of this writing has to happen somewhere, and where better than a writer’s retreat in a forest? Another project that does not yet exist. Well, the project exists, but the retreat doesn’t. At least not yet.

Speaking of projects - there is also the podcast series, which is a seed idea and work in progress.

AND - what would you fill ten days of history with, if you had them to write from scratch? There are ten days in history which you are free to fill. Check them out, they really did (not) happen. It’s (not) on the record. Really (well, not really but actually, yes. You will work it out.)

Finally, sample the dubious products of the designless design studio, known as The Serpent, his latest ambitious project.

Taken together these are the random puzzle pieces of a quietly creative, kind of busy life, that seems continually at an interesting crossroads of one kind or another.