Writing for kids is one of the most enjoyable things I’ve ever done. I love being transported to a simpler, brighter place where adult problems fade into the background and you see the world through the eyes of a child again. I’ve taken a bit of a break from fiction while writing educational books and …
It’s not often that authors get to enjoy some glamour. Writing is a lot of hard work, and there aren’t many opportunities to kick back and enjoy the fruits of our labours. So I was pleasantly surprised when I clicked on an email from the Greek Festival of Sydney organisers, and saw that it contained …
Congratulations, you’ve got a new follower! Five likes on your post so far … nice! X liked your post – maybe you’d like to see theirs, too! Is it just me, or does that sound like something you’d hear in a primary school classroom? Is social media treating us like a bunch of emotionally fragile …
I was completely blown away last Saturday. I was running Part 2 of my Writing for Profit workshop, and it happened to be my birthday. I’d mentioned to one of my students in a previous course that I’d be working on my birthday. A very lovely woman (and a talented emerging writer) attended both courses. …
We’ve all been there. You get fired up and excited over an idea for a story. You sit at your computer and, in an all-consuming passion, bash out the first few pages. This is it, you say. The greatest story / article / book I’ve ever written! Yippee! The next day, you write a few …
When it comes to writing – like most things in life – practice makes perfect. Okay … maybe not perfect. That’s too much to expect and I doubt it exists anyway! But practice certainly makes us much better writers, and that’s enough to be getting on with. So what are your writing habits? Do you …
One of the first questions I ask at my writing workshops is: Why do you want to be a writer? The answers are as varied as the participants themselves, but I’ve found there are five replies that crop up again and again. 1. For the money! This answer is relatively rare, but it does surface …
Stella Tarakson 