Writing
May 8, 2018
Walking in their Footsteps
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Are you someone who can create entire worlds in your head, like some of the best dystopian and speculative fiction writers I know? Or do you, like me, need to experience a place to be able to write about it? Whether it’s a community history (such as Many Hearts, One Voice) or family history, or […]
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February 6, 2018
NB: Please note that these competitions were for the first half of 2018. For a list of competitions for the second half of 2018 go to Writing Competitions for Young Writers in Australia: July to December 2018. If you’re a young writer, and have been putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) for a […]
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October 3, 2017
Have you ever tried researching your family history? Maybe you’ve been doing it for decades. Perhaps, like me, you made a start several years ago, but life got in the way. Or you might never really have thought about it until recently, if ever. After my grandmother passed away about ten years ago, my mother […]
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September 12, 2017
What do you do when you aren’t in the mood to create, and feel as if you have no ideas? In a previous post, I wrote about some of the ways I keep writing when I don’t feel like showing up to the page. Those strategies are mostly about getting started, and usually they work […]
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August 29, 2017
‘I have been having trouble with my motivation to write. I just feel as though I have no ideas and I haven’t felt like writing recently … What do you do when you aren’t in the mood to write and feel like you have no ideas?’ Can you relate? I can. When I received this […]
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August 1, 2017
So, you’ve written a great short story, poem or even an autobiographical piece, and are now wondering where to send it. As one of my earlier posts about writing competitions for young writers suggests, there are plenty of places to submit your creative work if you know where to look. But. Many writers submitting to […]
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