Advice for writers.
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…
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…
Is it good to be chirpy all the time? I’ve been asking myself this lately because I am, mostly, chirpy. Over the years, I’ve become fairly comfortable in my own skin. And on the odd day when I’m not comfortable in that skin, I go jog it off. Simple. But……
This week, I’m over at the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about the wrong paths writers can sometimes take in life… Picture this: I was twenty-four, it was my first day working for a top London law firm, and I already knew I’d made the biggest mistake of my…
Last week, I asked how far you usually go to solve unpleasant experiences in your life. At what point do you let things go? Well, after I wrote that post, I wondered how other authors handle unpleasant online experiences and what, if any, advice they had for other writers. The…
Okay, so let’s get one thing straight – I don’t consider myself famous! My kids sometimes think I am because I’ve been in the newspaper and on the radio a bit over the last few years, trying to make myself difficult for publishers to ignore (come on, publishers – I’m…
The writing process is how a writer (consciously or subconsciously) sets about writing what they do. Every writer has their own process, and I’ve talked before about the similarities and differences between writing as a pantser or as a planner (see here). Still, while I was teaching one of my…
