On Saturday I had the joy of attending the second New Zealand National Writers Forum—a hive of established and emerging authors who congregated in the lobby of the University of Auckland Business School. The theme: writing to live and living to write. I can’t begin to capture everything I took away from this conference, that would be like trying to hold water in a sieve; an impossible task. But I’ll do my best to cover the overarching themes that emerged over the day (with a