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This blog about writing is four years old.
Cue: the sound of wild cheering, strains of “Happy Birthday” and the popping of corks drifting through cyberspace.
[Editors note: corks popping? Why wasn't I invited??]
Yes folks, this blog about writing is now officially 4 years old today. It has crawled, stumbled and staggered across the pages of literary [...]

The Frustrations of the Writer’s Life
It has been a long time since my last entry in this series of articles. I have been very busy finishing off my course work for my degree. Then I had a stay in hospital followed closely by my wife having a stay in hospital too. On top of all [...]

I am always on the lookout for good blogs - especially those that deal with writing. I was delighted a few days ago to find out that someone has compiled a list of Australian blogs about writing.
Jonathan Crossfield on CopyWrite has compiled a list of the Top 50 Aussie Writing Blogs. I am delighted that [...]

Last year I bought a copy of the Garry Disher book called Writing Fiction: an introduction to the craft. It was the required text for the fiction writing unit in my Master of Arts course.
As I read the first chapter I underlined the following: ‘new writers believe that the best writing grows out of powerful [...]

Observant readers will have noted that they can now follow me on Twitter - just click on the link on the sidebar that says “Follow my Twitters.”
I’m a newcomer to this new thing called Twitter - though I can sense something of a little irony in it being called that. I’m an avid birder [...]