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 [...]

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 [...]

I try to write a new post for each of my three blogs every day.
I try - but have not always succeeded, especially in the last twelve months. While I have been studying for my Master of Arts in Creative Writing I have had to cut back drastically on the time I spend blogging. You [...]

I haven’t written about blogging on this blog about writing for some time now. Of necessity my blogging activity has been rather limited over the last 12 months because of my studies. Getting my Master of Arts in Creative Writing has taken precedence over blogging. Despite that, my three blogs continue to tick along quite [...]