What Makes A Good Friend? #Writing

This week I was hanging out with teenage writers, helping them write their stories and get those words into print. When I was a young writer, writing was absolutely everything to me. It was more important in fact than anything else in life – friends, family, school, even my personal…

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My Top Social Media Tips for Writers #CSFG

Today I’m over at the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild offering up my top social media tips for writers (though a lot of other stakeholders could benefit from these tips too!!). Here’s the start of that post: I didn’t mean to become one, but over the last few years I’ve become…

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Have You Found Your Life-Mojo? #RUOKday

Sometimes trying to find your mojo in life can be a bit of a struggle. We’re not all raised by perfect parents with modern privileges and a contented soul, and it can be hard to reconcile that. Reconciliation is within reach, however, for all of us. It’s taken me until…

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The Never-Far-Away Telling of Story

This weekend I was far away from writing stories on my computer (something that doesn’t happen very often!), staying in the beautiful southern highlands. There were trees as far as the eye could see, and not one building interrupted the view. Parrots squawked. Mist hazed. There was little traffic. We…

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When To Send Your Novel Writing Into The World

Today I’m over at the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild talking about when to send your novel writing out into the world: Why is it that we only realise how bad we were at writing novels… once we’re finally good at writing them? When I finished writing my first novel, I…

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Why Everyone Should Write

Ping everyone! Writers Readers Friends Family Whether you think you’re good at writing or not – writing is good for you. Why? Because …even if you just write a diary, even if you just jot down notes, even if you just amass written words that voice your views on a…

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