It is an unfinished, personal and spiritual account that was, and still is, at odds with the atheistic and scientific direction of society.
Planning or Not Planning So much has been said and written about this topic, that it is almost fruitless to comment. All you need do is Google the topic and [...]
Definitions of a Scene A scene is the smallest unit of narration. It is a story with a beginning, middle, and an end. One editor calls it the DNA of [...]
How to Write a Novel After gaining a Teaching Certificate in 1965, I embarked on a journey from Australia to England, passing along the Suez Canal shortly before its forced [...]
Alone not lonely is Maureen Mendelowitz's second novella to be published by Ginninderra Press (2018). See my post about her first book on this site. I attended the successful launch [...]
I really enjoyed this novella, published by Ginninderra Press, about an unrequited love relationship set in South Africa during apartheid. The voice is unique: poetic and full of beauty from [...]
I have recently been researching diagrams to represent the Narrative Arc. I had completed a personal memoir, River Girl, based partly on childhood memories, that was complex in structure. How [...]
An Australian Story Set in the Forties and Fifties POV Choices: Say you are writing a story set in the forties and fifties. You have a character in mind, a [...]
The bridge is pleasing to the eye. It's perfect in its simplicity. You can only appreciate the grace of its arcs from a distance, or from the pebbly beach down [...]
It’s on the opposite side of the earth from Sydney, the language spoken is very different, and it’s much colder in autumn. But Copenhagen is an amazingly liveable city. We [...]
