My writing started out as therapy for a polarised — to be explained later on — childhood. My own background had been stamped indelibly by my not having had a [...]
From Amazon's Online Book Club I'd received lots of reviews from family and friends of my debut novel, Karrana. But I never quite believed the veracity of these reviews, being [...]
Worth a thousand words: the top ten best Australian children’s picture books Reading from an early age can instill healthy habits for a lifetime. “Possum Magic”, by Mem Fox and [...]
A book about writing groups Joining a writing group is very popular these days, at least in Anglo speaking countries. There are many different types of writing groups, just as [...]
This post from December 2016, has been re-edited and re-published in April, 2019. Broad and Narrow Genres Since the proliferation of Creative Writing courses in universities in the Anglo world, [...]
More confusion surrounds the concept of Point of View in fiction writing than any other term. One of the problems is that writers, and I have been guilty of this [...]
View Post Definitions of Narrative Personas According to Ernest Hemingway, the writer’s job is “to sit in front of the page and bleed”. But it’s not the person in flesh-and-blood [...]
My Writer’s Voice: A Childhood Spent on the North Coast of NSW The historical photograph of my hometown, with the Clarence River and Susan Island across the water, brings me [...]
Point-of-View in the 19th Century In his fictional work, A Million Windows (Giramondo 2014) Gerald Murnane writes: "At one extreme is the boldness and directness of the nineteenth-century writer of [...]
Traditional Versus Modern Voices Why have I chosen the following photo from my place of birth, Grafton, taken in 1924, as an introduction to this post? For several reasons: I [...]
