Do you write while walking? Do you walk to write? Has walking overtaken writing as your Number One Love? I used to walk around 4 km a day but a few months back I read something…
Into the writing
How do you balance the inner/outer journeys of the writing process — the introversion of making the work versus the extroversion required to present the work to the world? How do you go deep within without…
Choosing to Write
In our Draftbusters workshop the other day we were discussing one of the difficult aspects of the writer’s process — how to keep going in the face of negative self talk. I mentioned that I have…
How to write w/o writing
We hear a lot about how to deal with writer’s block and other obstacles, but what can you do when you are prevented from writing, either by illness, injury or other circumstances beyond your control? A…
Writing the long haul
When working on a book, how do you hang in there for the long haul? I often compare the writing of a book to the building of a house which may explain my fascination with the…
Writing as a virtual mode of travel
Writing has always offered the possibility of travel. Whenever we step into the world of the writer’s creation, we go on a journey . You could say that story telling and writing were in fact the earliest…
Creativity, our new passport!
It’s been a few months since Covid hit and with the world still in various stages of lockdown, one thing is for sure — international travel (for us Aussies at least) is off the agenda for…
Writing the future
I can’t remember which person (famous or not) said “write the future you want to live in.” It’s good advice on any day but particularly so now. But how do we do this when our worlds…
Finding new ways to travel
In this time of restricted living when all our travel plans (even to the next suburb) are on hold, how can we find new ways of exploring unchartered horizons. The obvious answer is to turn within,…
Self isolation — for writers, it’s a snack!
I’m not long back from leading a group of writers and artists on a two week creative journey in Morocco. It was my fifth Moroccan visit. When we left Australia the Covid19 pandemic was contained mainly…
Writing (and travelling) on impulse
I realised recently that all the best things I do are on impulse. My best writing, my best travelling, my most rewarding connections with other beings, all come from that rush of energy, that pure in-the-moment…
Writing the future
It’s been a long, hot apocalyptic summer and it’s not over yet! The statistics of how many acres of forest, how many millions of animals, how many lives and properties lost, and the dire forecasts for…