Australian author Michelle de Kretser once said that her excitement at receiving a publishing contract is not so much due to the promise of being published, but the pleasure of being edited. ‘No-one, not even my own mother, will read …
The writer laid bare
I’m delighted (and surprised) to be a finalist for Best Australian Blogs 2014 in the section of Words & Writing. Full list of finalists is here: http://www.writerscentre.com.au/community/best-australian-blogs-comp/finalists-2014/?inf_contact_key=33fe76629992da3c3a64d81a2982ec52de92cf450cb88918cf01b25ad4ea2f32…
What am I writing now? Writing Process Blog Chain.
I’ve been invited to participate in a Writing Process Blog Chain where writers who blog describe their current writing process by responding to a standard questionnaire. Belinda Castles, who writes wonderfully lyrical novels and whose lovely company I enjoyed during …
A guest post by Kathryn Ledson, the author of Erica Jewell series: How I became an author
I hadn’t considered the question of what led me to become an author until I was asked it by some of my readers. And then, as I mentally retraced my steps over the five decades of my life before getting …
My poem The Allure of History was published in Cordite‘s chapbook Spoon Bending curated by Kent MacCarter. You can read it here: http://cordite.org.au/poetry/the-allure-of-history-%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8/…
Writing unfaithfully
To my mind, the craft of writing resides not in formulaic rules (e.g. ‘don’t use any adverbs’ or ‘no more than one adjective per noun’), but in that elusive process when our innermost, vaguest dreaming eventually shapes itself into a …