Melinda Tognini
May 7, 2022
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, where every reader starts with the same title and links to six other books, depending on whatever random ways our brains make connections. This month’s starting book is True Story of the Kelly Gang by Australian author Peter Carey. On my mum’s side of the family is the […]
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May 2, 2022
Are you researching your family history? If so, do you keep a research log? I do now, but only after learning the value of them the hard way—by not having one. I had been researching my ancestors for about fifteen years, having a grand old time uncovering all sorts of details about generations past—discovering not […]
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April 26, 2022
One-Word Creative Prompts #1
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Although I’ve developed a fairly consistent habit of turning up to the page each morning (or at least most of them), thanks to Julia Cameron’s idea of morning pages (three pages, longhand, daily), I still find myself procrastinating instead of just getting on with it. It got to the point where it was getting rather […]
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April 2, 2022
Welcome back to 6 Degrees of Separation, where we all begin with the same book and link it to six others in whatever random ways our brain decides to make connections. This month’s starting title is Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. As is often the case with the 6 Degrees nominated title, […]
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March 29, 2022
I am delighted to welcome author and interviewer Monique Mulligan to Treefall Writing this week. I first met Monique online after a call out for writers interested in forming an accountability group. Called the Lollygaggers, it was designed to, well, stop us lollygagging and instead commit to our writing. It was here that I first […]
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March 29, 2022
About Wildflower When Acacia Miller moves in next door just before Christmas 1979, eleven-year-old Jane Kelly is saved from the lonely summer she was expecting after a year of being bullied at school. But even as the friendship grows, Acacia remains vague and offhand when asked questions about her family and home life. Then Jane […]
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