The Anthropos is rising! The age-old, original man is coming to claim us from our shadow imitations of manhood! Patriarchal Man is dying! You know him well – the one [...]
This is a short excerpt, still under review, from Chapter Twenty-Seven of Karrana. Bridie thought Stella, curled up in the corner of the mail train compartment, her red curls squashed [...]
One of my favourite examples of "showing" is from Australian writer Tim Winton. In the following example from Cloudstreet, Lester Lamb and his sons, Quick and Fish, are netting for [...]
I recently attended a seminar on Publishing at the NSW Writers Centre entitled "Open Access". The main message I came away with was: "You must be an author entrepreneur. You [...]
Same reason for being in Oxford—the Oxford Dysfluency Conference that my partner helped organise—same train trip from London; same College for accommodation. But this trip, instead of visiting university landmarks [...]
I've always been fascinated by the moon. There is a strange beauty about the moon as viewed from Earth. It must have been a wonderful sight for the cosmonauts to [...]
I've just finished reading a memoir by a writer, Alan Close: Until You Met Me: A Memoir Of One Man’s Troubled Search For Love about his lifetime struggle to have [...]
Pandora's Box and Other Myths It is striking how ancient myths link up with modern-day thought and religious ideas if you dig a little deeper. For the ancient Greeks, Pandora [...]
Are you a planner or a laisser faire type when it comes to narrative structure? Do you put plot, character or language first? Aristotle, in Poetics, claimed plot as the [...]
Aristotle (Photo credit: maha-online) Our writers' group recently invited a speaker from the University of Technology, Sydney to present a talk on "Poetics", which he defined as the [...]
