Do You Want to Write… and Nothing Else? #CSFG

Wouldn’t it be nice to do nothing else in life but write? This week I’m over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about exactly that… Bliss would be having writing as my only job… To get up in the morning and just go to work – aka write…

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Social Media for Writers – Public or Private?

This week I’m over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about how to juggle your personal and public profiles on social media. It talks about a time when I had the flu but, don’t worry, I wrote it a while ago and am not sick anymore (unless you…

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Doing It Again! #WABIAD

Because I’m incredibly lucky to be a mother of two wonderful healthy children… Because giving sick kids a story to read and spending the next few months raising money for them is definitely something I can do… Because my writers’ group wanted to do the same… The Northern Beaches Writers’…

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Being Naked

A few years ago, my husband and I were living in a tiny unit with our two young kids, and it was bathtime. Our bathroom had so little ventilation that unless we left both the window and door open, mould would grow on the ceiling from trapped steam. While Hubbie…

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Time Management for Writers

It’s my birthday today. Woo hoo! To celebrate, I have a gift… for you. It’s another blog post over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog – lucky you!! This time I’m talking about how to manage your writing time efficiently… Time – as writers it’s probably our most precious commodity.…

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The Evolution of Communication

Have you ever wondered how we’re going to properly navigate this new ocularcentric culture of ours, where the semiotic landscape is dominated by the visual? What is the future of language when it’s becoming so entwined with such plural literacies? Well, Jessica Frawley, a researcher in the UTS Centre for…

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The Secret to Overcoming Writer-Envy

This week, I’m over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about writer envy… I don’t get writer envy. At least, I don’t get it anymore. I used to compare myself to other writers and wish I had their lives. It bugged me that their writery lives were so glamorous…

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