Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been writing for years, whether you are 9 or 89, everyone has days when they need help to get the creativity cranking. I often have to ‘trick’ myself into writing by telling myself I only have to write for 10 minutes. Usually, that’s enough for the words to start flowing, although some days are […]
After almost eight years of researching, interviewing, drafting and editing, my manuscript is finally beginning to look like … a book. A little recap in case you missed it: In November 2007, I agreed to write the story of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia. In doing so, I discovered a courageous group of women whose […]
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, a literary meme created by Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman in which we link a book to six others in any way that comes to mind. This month begins with The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling. For me, this is about leaving a space for Indigenous authors to tell […]
This week we are grieving the loss of little Levi Wibberley, the beautiful Perth boy who has touched the lives of many, and whose story I shared as one of the very first posts on this blog. Levi was born with Krabbe disease, a rare degenerative disorder, and passed away in the early hours of Wednesday 6 May 2015, aged […]
Welcome to my contribution to the Writer Mama Blog Hop, (hosted by Sharon Bayliss) in which writers with small children answer the question, ‘Where do you find time to write?’ No matter how hard I press into this writing life, or how long I am on the journey, there are certain challenges I continue to come up […]
Welcome to this month’s Six Degrees of Separation, a literary meme created by Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman in which we link a book to six others in any way that comes to mind. After months of beginning Six Degrees with books I’ve not yet read, April starts with one I have: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. […]