I took this photo just moments before the audience were asked to return to their seats ahead of a panel I was speaking on this past Saturday called ‘How to find and refine your voice’. The panel convenor was Wendy Tuohy and my co-panellists were Kate Forster and Lou Pardi; they are all fabulous, talented…
It’s approaching that time in Australia – Mother’s Day. I know, the hell, right? It’s almost May. In order to help assist present buying, might I suggest the below? I’ve got Crying in the Car available with no postage and free gift wrapping from now until Mother’s Day. Since putting up notice on the sidebar…
I admit that when it comes to memes/challenges I find myself swinging between two camps: The first thinking that they can help unlock (or unblock) creativity because they identify a thing or idea than needs capturing, and therefore imposed ‘rules’ are somewhat of a relief and are open to play or as radical an interpretation…
I was one of the guests to speak on the Writing Online panel at Offset’s Creative Arts Festival this past Saturday. As I’ve talked about this blog, and my writing/upkeep of it, a fair bit over the years, I wanted to make this talk a little different. It’s a pretty personal story and I’ve never really…
And before I know it, the trip is almost over. Will be back next week x There’s the BlogHer Voices of the Year finalist banner with my post. That’s a pretty good Living List tick.
I’ve not been feeling ‘blogging-centric’ this week. I wouldn’t call it writers’ block (because, as I’ve said before, I don’t really believe in it), and a ‘block’ normally indicates a fixable problem – there’s something wrong that just needs the right tools to budge. This is something close, but not quite. The best I can…
For those of you who have been debating whether to attend the Emerging Writers’ Festival or not, in a piece of developing news I will be taking the ‘Blog to Where?’ session during the blogging masterclass. From the website, here’s a little more about the day: Take your blogging to the next level. Aimed at…
As I said the other day, there was a lot of questions and curiosity about the writing and publishing process after my ‘Blog to Book‘ session with Pip and Kylie (moderated by Valerie) on Friday. I promised I’d write a post about this subject and below are some links I’ve written over the years that will be relevant and…
Like last year, I’m participating in this year’s Month of Poetry – writing a poem every day for January. I said something similar last month when I guest posted over at Problogger, but I do believe the more you stretch and push yourself creatively the more accustomed you become to the exercise. I won’t say…
