by Anne Skyvington | Sep 12, 2023 | Poetry, Writing A Novel
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, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 4, 2023 | Writing A Novel, Writing Australia
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 I empathised with. I used it as an example of voice in fiction in a post on this...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 8, 2023 | Writing A Novel
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 Month I have written a novel, and I am pleased with my first attempt at self-publishing a debut work....
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 2, 2022 | Writing A Novel
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 to develop in steps, upward and in opposite directions, numerically matching the Fibonacci...
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 22, 2021 | Writing A Novel
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 as each shift from one character to another is adequately marked, by way of punctuation; for example by starting a...
by Anne Skyvington | Nov 22, 2021 | Writing A Novel
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 along with it. In fact, however, most of us must create narrators and characters through considering...
