Advice for writers.
Every month I donate time to helping others further behind me in their writing journeys. Most recently this has involved judging the Mosman Youth Awards in Literature, for which I not only read the entries and selected the winners, but also offered a detailed judge’s report. This year the award…
You started creating a book, short story, life story or memoir, completed a first draft, now don’t know if it’s truly ‘finished’? Even seasoned writers can struggle with this question of when to stop. As well as writing amazing stories (he he!), I run a full-time creative support business. It…
You started creating a book, short story, life story or memoir; but then you stopped? Now you don’t know how to continue. Even seasoned writers can struggle with the question of how to finish what they’ve begun. As well as writing amazing stories (he he!), I run a full-time creative…
You have a good idea for a story, but don’t know how or where to start? Maybe you’d like to create a book, short story, life story or memoir? Even seasoned writers can struggle with the question of how to start. As well as writing amazing stories (he he!), I…
At the end of last year, a member of the writers’ group I run withdrew a piece of writing they’d submitted for critique due to a lack of confidence… inspired by their partner. She had shown her husband the piece, her first ever, and he hadn’t liked it. This triggered…
‘Tis the season to be jolly, or in the case of writers… the season to get creative and seek feedback on our endeavours! I know a lot of writers, and the vast majority of us look forward to this time of year, when we can step away from our usual…
The concept of releasing powerful feelings through artistic activities, ie ‘catharsis’, was considered as long ago as Aristotle in his Poetics, 384-322 BC, where he said a tragic play should provide an outlet for the audience’s emotions of pity and fear. Centuries later, scientists now confirm that turning to words…
