Archive for July, 2008

This year I have not had much of my writing published (apart from this and my other two blogs). That is because I have been concentrating on the reading and assignments for my Master of Arts in Creative Writing course.
One of the units I studied last semester was called Creative Writing in the Christian Context. […]

I started back at University today for the second semester for this academic year. For new readers to my blog I am currently a quarter of the way through doing my Master of Arts in Creative writing course at Tabor College in Adelaide, South Australia.
This semester I am studying three units as follows:

Themes in Australian […]

It has been quite a while since my last list of my ever popular short story starters. Here is another list to help you on your way writing those short stories. I hope you find something to inspire you. Perhaps you are suffering from ‘writer’s block’ and this is just what you need to get […]

One of the units I studied last semester included a reading of selected works from the classics of English literature. One of the works studied was John Milton’s epic poem ‘Paradise Lost.’
It had been many years since I’d last looked at this poem. It was like coming afresh to this monumental work of literature. At […]

Most writers dream of being published. Most writers dream of having other people read their stories, novels, poems and articles. That is an understandable and perfectly good dream to have if you are a writer.
The reality is, however, that many people who write do not submit their writing to publishers. Of those that do go […]