Writing Karrana was a journey of struggle that demanded new learning, passion and persistence. Even though the original idea was based largely on my parents' love story and subsequent [...]
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — [...]
I've always liked Susan Johnson's writing, ever since I found a piece by her in the Griffith Review Journal (Number 32), in which she painted a picture of motherhood that [...]
Getting Off The Ground In this month of November, I see that there are many colleagues and friends on Medium starting out to do just that in National Novel Writing [...]
Just look around you...on the ground and in trees, in the sky... The Fibonacci Sequence is everywhere! In Plants In Pine cones the spiral pattern of the seed pods tend [...]
A little on point of view first... Point of view refers to who sees the action within a story or novel. You can have multiple points of view, so long [...]
The Voice that Comes to You Mystery is part of the writing process, and for some writers there are those thrilling moments when a voice “just comes” and takes them [...]
Three colleagues who assisted me in getting my writing off the ground, have just published new works: Dina Davis with A Dangerous Daughter (Cilento Publishing), who avoided lockdown and actually [...]
The Story of the Novel Those in the know say Write about what you know. This could be my parents' love story, with the boring bits left out. My story [...]
There's an innate problem with writing about your life, and that is that your relatives might not want to be shown up, warts and all, in a publication. Clive James got around that issue by using humour to recreate his childhood narrative, which is part of an autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs.
