Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
When I was a little girl, I always thought I had the same chance as everyone else to win a prize, the lottery, votes, competitions, etc. When I was a gloomy teenager, I still hoped this was true, yet felt it wasn’t… Every time I entered a competition and lost,…
Look what I just found in my mailbox! Having just completed a seriously mega edit, I needed some fresh air – so thought I’d walk to my front gate and check my mailbox. I’m so happy I did… my copy of You, Me & A Bit of We was inside.…
As some of you may recall, earlier this year my writers’ group and I decided to raise some money for The Kids’ Cancer Project at Westmead Children’s Hospital – doing what we most love to do… write. We wrote, illustrated and printed a book for 11-16 year olds entitled Scribbles…
Have you ever read (or written) a story told in ‘first person plural’, which is where verbs are told with the personal pronoun ‘we’? It’s an incredibly tricky POV (point of view) to master but I’ve done it! My ‘first person plural’ short story Our Something Said has been accepted…
Yay! I won! A few weeks ago, I found out that I’d won the 2013 Australian Horror Writers’ Association short fiction competition with my short story “Darker”. Today… I received the trophy. I thought you might like to see it, so here it is! The judges couldn’t decide between my…
Nothing much happening this end at the moment. At the same time, a writers’ life can be very interesting – so here’s what I’ve been up to this week. TEACHING Last Friday, I taught my Problems in Wonderland: Stories That Matter workshop at Manly Vale Public School. As always, I…
Squee: (verb) To squeal with glee Do you squee? Or does it irritate you to the point that you loathe those who do? Believe it or not, but there are some who’d like to remove the word from the world’s vocabulary by decree! But I still squee. And I believe…
