If you’re thinking about blogging, let me say this up front: DO IT. I’ve been writing online since 2003, but mid-way through 2006 a friend sent me a link to this website she called a ‘blog’. It was Dooce.com, where …
How to seduce a reader
My favorite writers are not so much writers as seducers, shamans, tricksters. Their works affect me on a gut level. Reading their books feels like being hypnotised or making love. I cannot explain my excitement about Marguerite Duras, for example, …
The challenges of stream-of-consciousness writing: A guest post by Leon Silver
I wrote my first novel Dancing with the Hurricane from the perspective of a fifty-one year old man sitting at his comatose uncle’s hospital bed. The nursing staff had advised him to squeeze his uncle’s hand and talk to him …
The Certain Uncertainty of Writing Fiction: A Guest Post from Kirsten Krauth
I didn’t do a lot of research for my first novel, just_a_girl. Speaking from the point of view of a teenager, full of contradictions: I could do that. Speaking from the point of view of a mother, fretting about …
So good to see that my memoir The Dangerous Bride has a long life. Two years since its publication, and this Saturday it made into Good Weekend.…
I just had the pleasure of publishing a new essay on Australian Women Writers Network website about what I call my ‘Chagall’s curse’.…