Tobias Wolff on Writing
I recently rediscovered this quote, from Tobias Wolff’s incredible novel Old School, while looking through an old notebook. Does it feel true of…
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How to Become a Writer: Claire Varley
Claire Varley is the author of novels The Book of Ordinary People (2018) and The Bit in Between(2015). She works in the community…
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How Writers Earn Money: Lending Rights
What are lending rights? I sometimes have readers apologise to me for borrowing one of my books from a library instead of buying…
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How to Become a Writer: Andy Griffiths
This series is based on an early short-story by Lorrie Moore called ‘How to Become a Writer’, a wry account of all the seemingly random events, choices and…
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Tax time is always a fun reality check! This year I earned a little over $21,000 from writing-related activities which I have broken…
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My novel-in-progress, Monkey See, is about the very unlikely friendship that forms between my protagonist, Danior and a spider monkey named Chacho who…
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How to Become a Writer: Angela Meyer
This series is based on an early short-story by Lorrie Moore called ‘How to Become a Writer’, a wry account of all the seemingly random events, choices and…
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How to Become a Writer: Kim Lock
This series is based on an early short-story by Lorrie Moore called ‘How to Become a Writer’, a wry account of all the seemingly random events, choices and…
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How Writers Earn Money #3 (Part 2): Public Speaking in Schools
As I mentioned in Part 1 of my post on festivals and libraries, public speaking is one way to earn extra money as…
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Top 10: Books About Marriage
The novel I’m writing, the first in a series tentatively titled Monkey See, centres on the lives of a couple who’ve been married…
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