Last month I promised that the next post would contain strategies to defeat the writers’ greatest enemy – Procrastination. So let’s get armed to win this battle.
Firstly, please don’t beat yourself up if, like me, you are a fidgety …
The writer laid bare
Will love to see you at the book launch of Mothermorphosis: Australian Storytellers Write about Becoming a Mother (MUP) where I have an essay. This anthology will be launched on 19.4, Sunday, at Readings Hawthorn at 2pm. I’ll be reading …
A guest post by Diana Jenkins: A Corner of One’s Own
It’s been over four years since I last had a dedicated writing space. Recently I’ve been wondering about the effect of this absence on both my creativity and productivity. I have a good track record with desks: I love them …
I’m terribly excited to be launching a memoir of mental illness The Good Greek Girl (Jane Curry Publishing) by the wonderful writer Maria Katsonis, whom I had the pleasure of mentoring during the writing of this book.
If you can, …
How to tame a book (and its author).
The writer Annie Dillard likens the process of writing to taming. She writes in her now-seminal book, ’On Writing’:
A work in progress quickly becomes feral… it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and
My most recent publication is an essay The Honesty Problem that appears in the latest issue of Meanjin. The essay is about my ongoing struggle to be emotionally honest in my work.
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