I’m very pleased to announce that a writer I mentored through Writers Victoria, Bambi Smyth, is about to release in October her travel memoir ‘Men on the Menu’ via Five Miles Press. More details about Bambi are here http://www.bambismyth.com.au/…
A Guest Post by Susan Wyndham, the literary editor of SMH: On Not Writing a Novel
I am writing a novel. I have been writing it for five years. But most of the time I write it in my head. Does this sound familiar? Am I just another wannabe novelist who talks big but will never …
That Damn First Draft
Now that my memoir The Dangerous Bride is finally printed and about to be released in a month, I am at work on my new writing plans. I always need lots of plans to produce a little something. Making plans …
Two pieces of good news:
1. I loved judging the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition this year and the winners were just announced. Their works will be published in the next Writers Victoria magazine.
2. Thanks to Writers Victoria …
A Guest Post from the renowned writing mentor Sydney Smith: Understanding your antagonist
Whenever a writer tells me they have a problem with Act 2 of their novel, I ask them about their antagonist, the character who opposes the protagonist and prevents them from getting what they want. Act 2 forms the bulk …
Can I be honest with you?
My husband, a doctor, jokes that whenever his patients say ‘Can I be honest with you?’ he wonders what was the point of their visit in the first place if they didn’t intend to be honest? The same applies to …