The life that produces writing can’t be written about. It is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below…
Read MoreThe Perils of Applying for Writing Grants
It’s no secret that writing a book takes time. A lot of time. For me, around 5 years. Or that it pays badly….
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Read MoreThe question any novel is trying to answer is, Is life worth living? That’s a major question, a huge question, but the best…
Read MoreWhy Writers Need Marketing Plans
At the moment I’m in the process of applying for a grant from the West Australian Department of Culture & the Arts (DCA),…
Read MoreDuties Other Than Writing
My son’s teacher has a day each week reserved for DOTT – Duties Other Than Teaching. I imagine she gets busy with the…
Read MoreRemembering How to Write
I wrote my first two novels in longhand, with old-fashioned pencils on scrap paper. But The Arkwas a book of digital communications. It…
Read MoreNot Sufficiently Enthusiastic
My first novel A New Map of the Universe was published by UWA Publishing. For a first novel, by an unknown author, with…
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