And you haven’t checked in with Kim Wilkin’s website, Hexebart’s Well, then scoot on over and take a look. I check in from time to time and always come away feeling more determined. But THIS, her TED talk, is gold. I must tweet it later ;) PS the winner of the Lisa Heidke giveaway announced very soon – I was going to do another little
Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when we as individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it. Joyce Carol Oates in the Paris Review.
{First, a brief explanation. The way I write has changed a lot. This is where it’s at. At first I tried for brief and succinct, but totally failed, so this will be a series of posts.
How I stay in peak physical condition for writing. And I say, well …
I’ve reached the point in a first draft where you feel like you’re trying to push an elephant into a cup.
Or anybody else who’s making things. Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
While I was at Coonabarabran, I was asked to judge the staff’s short story writing competition. The only rule was that it had to be 50 words. A whole story in 50 words. I couldn’t do that, not in a million years. For me, even a short story is over 10,000 … But these guys were all over it. There were space odysseys,
Raw Blue has the glitter skin, but it was only as I looked at the previous post I realised Night Beach has the glittering lights. Huh. Funny how you find patterns. It’s a recurring thing through the story. What do you call that? Motif? At seventeen, I’m in‑between. Staring at the carnival from a distance. Not sure if I want to go forward and
Yesterday I sent the next round of edits for NIGHT BEACH (feeling bold today) zinging back through cyberspace to my lovely editor, Amy, who is currently overseas, and was enjoying Chinese New Year in style. It felt good. I like dragons. And for you, wherever you are, I hope your year of the dragon turns out to be a cracker. When the book is
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