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The Craft of Writing author invites you to access skills and writing passages that interest you, by exploring this revamped site in your own time. All posts are based on many years of practice and research into the art of creative writing

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Anne Skyvington is a writer based in Sydney who has been practising and teaching creative writing skills for many years. You can learn here about structuring a short story and how to go about creating a longer work, such as a novel or a memoir. Subscribe to this blog and receive a monthly newsletter on creative writing topics and events.

Karrana

It’s the aftermath of the Second World War in the lush valley of Karrana, a fictional town on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. This novel fits into the broad genre of Women’s Fiction, since it explores themes to do with love and family. It examines these issues through the prism of the postwar years in country Australia and in Sydney, but the themes are still relevant in society today. It’s about love, passion and the search for real fulfilment within a relationship. At a victory dance, Bridie meets and falls in love with Will from the other side of the river.

 

My Blog

At the Swimming Pool

At the Swimming Pool

A Short Story Jeanie is one of these inch worm types. One toe in; one toe back. The cold has always been alien. From birth, really. Even today, with…

Candidly Yours…

Candidly Yours…

In search of a voice… My writing started out as therapy for a polarised — to be explained later on — childhood.  My own background had been…

Highs and Lows of Self Publishing

Highs and Lows of Self Publishing

Self publishing may require you, the first-time author/publisher, to invest time in learning the ropes by accessing online forums and videos provided by Amazon KDP.

Ancient Stories from Childhood

Ancient Stories from Childhood

As a child growing up in a valley where diversity was met with suspicion, I learnt, first-hand, about racism. However, I also saw paradoxes within…

Self publishing a novel as an ebook

Self publishing a novel as an ebook

What a month it has been! No, make that two—or three…. First a hasty trip to Croatia and to Spain with my husband. I always like to record my…

Return to Cavtat…uvijek!

Return to Cavtat…uvijek!

We’re here in Cavtat on the southern coast of Croatia, for the 4th International Symposium on Stuttering that my husband convenes….

Self Publishing

Self Publishing

1. Self Publishing Is Easy (according to some!) Firstly, choose a size for your print book, format your Word manuscript to fit that size, turn your…

Genre in Writing

Genre in Writing

This post from December 2016, has been re-edited and re-published in April, 2019. Broad and Narrow Genres Since the proliferation of Creative…

Another Look at Point of View

Another Look at Point of View

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…