The Plague: Journey to a Book #2 – A Second Draft & Seeking Feedback
In my last post, I wrote about how I smashed out a first draft of my novel, (working title The Plague) in just 4…
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Writers & Other Animals: Eliza Henry-Jones on Gillian Mears’ Foal’s Bread
My work in progress Monkey See features a super-intelligent Spider Monkey named Chacho. Writing the character of Chacho has made me think a lot…
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The Plague: Journey to a Book #1 – Freefall Writing a First Draft
If you read my last Journey to a Book post, you’ll know that based on feedback from the agent who read Monkey See, (which…
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Monkey See: Journey to a Book (Part 3) – Structural Edit & Back-Story
For most of last year I worked on a structural edit of my novel Monkey See, based on some very detailed and insightful feedback from…
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Monkey See: Journey to a Book (Part 2) – Editing
Many years ago I worked as teacher’s aide at St Kilda Primary School. During that period I became VERY familiar with the list of…
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Monkey See: Journey to a Book (Part 1) – Completing a First Draft
I recently finished the first draft of my fourth novel Monkey See, which I have been writing, on and off, for a year and a…
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KSP Writing Residency Round-Up
I spent the last month as writer-in-residence at Katherine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers Centre in Greenmount, Western Australia. Over the course of the month I…
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Writing Process ‘Blog Hop’
What am I working on now? I am finishing the app which will accompany my forthcoming e-book The Ark. This has been a long, finicky…
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My Writing Goals for 2014
Duties other than Writing Back when I was writing my first novel A New Map of the Universe, my one task as a…
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2013: My Year in Writing
2013 was a truly wonderful year for me in terms of my writing. Though I had my share of rejections and disappointments, as…
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