When you are writing, and you are really in the zone it feels a bit like being on a treasure hunt. Following clues up one track, it’s easy to feel disheartened when you come to…
Writing for Healing
In April I’m thrilled to be co-facilitating the Healing Journey Retreat with Grace Gawler. Location: Orford, South East Coast, Tasmania. Our six day residential retreat experience is specifically designed for women of all ages and stages…
Care of the (writer)Self
Each month at our workshop, Draft Busters Online, we tackle a different aspect of writing craft and learn how to apply it to our current writing projects. The workshops happen on Zoom twice a week. On…
Can’t I give up now?
I’m over it. I don’t want to write this book any more. I really don’t. I’m so close to the end and the thought that I have to keep going back in and fixing this bit…
Putting off Writing?
Tax time is here, in Australia anyway. Time to get out all your receipts out of old wallets and shoe boxes and tally them up. See how many expenses you can squeeze out of your faded,…
Creative Set Up
Chinese/Tibetan New Year is almost upon us. It’s another opportunity to set yourself up for a great creative year. Here’s some tips to help. (Reposted from my Substack: onthewritersjourney.substack.com) One: REMEMBER, YOUR CREATIVE WORK IS THE…
Revamp your creative tool box
‘Sshin-nyen haoww!’ Happy Chinese New Year! The year of Water Tiger is the perfect time to revamp your creative tool box. The Water Tiger apparently is a symbol of adventure, courage, determination, creativity and originality. That’s…
Sleep, write, sleep!
I hope you had a good holiday season. And I hope your family events weren’t disrupted by Covid like mine were. Still as I heard the Dalai Lama say recently in a wonderful doco, Mission Joy…
The proof is in the pudding!
Who says you can’t write at Xmas time? At the busiest time of year a group of writers proved you can! Our Last Gasp Intensive ran for 2 weeks, 6 – 17 Dec and had a…
Finishing — the hardest step?
I’m currently in the end stages of writing my travel memoir set in Vietnam and Cambodia. I know I’ve said this before but this time it’s gotta be true. It’s based on a pilgrimage trip I…
Lockdown lessons
With an end to Covid restrictions (in Sydney and Melbourne anyway) it’s a good time to ask: — what new things did you learn about yourself this lockdown? — what will you be happy to say…
Writing your way through
When we were first locked down last year, it was all a bit of a novelty. People came up with clever means of keeping themselves and others entertained — sourdough bake offs, live gig streaming, elaborate…