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On the Train to Sydney
This is a short excerpt from Chapter Twenty-Seven of “Karrana”. I’d appreciate any feedback from readers, as I’m getting close to finishing the first draft of the manuscript. Bridie thought Stella,...
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The Narrative Arc
I have recently been researching diagrams to represent the Narrative Arc. My memoir, based partly on childhood memories, needed to be restructured. I’m not one of these clever writers who map out...
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Irony and Fun in “Double Madness”
Published by Margaret River Press, 2015 http://www.margaretriverpress.com/catalogue/new-releases/double-madness/ If you like detective stories and a rollicking good read, with a nice dose of...
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A Short Story: First published in “Bondi Tides”
Crow He is waiting for me again this morning, out on the same post, watching me with one eye slanted as always, my jet black crow. He is out for what he can get, the crow. I give him titbits, a piece...
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Short Story set in Paris 1968
The Night of the Barricades Emerging from the metro station, Hannah opened her eyes on a strange world into which she’d stumbled by chance. All was new and filled with a radiance she’d never known...
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A Crafty, Callous, Curmudgeonly Crew
We’ve always had boat-people coming to Australia. Our ancestors arrived here in ships from England. The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which left Great Britain on 13 May 1787 to found a...
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Listen to this organ in Croatia that uses the sea to make hauntingly...
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My travel journal 1968: a metaphor
Yugoslavia 1968 It is difficult, almost impossible, to work at a full-time job and to write creatively at the same time. My first writings were straight journal entries. While travelling around...
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Hello and welcome…
Hello to all my blog readers at the beginning of 2016, as the Year of the Goat (in Chinese Astrology) is coming to an end. And the Year of the Monkey is going to begin. I hope this year will be even...
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,400 times in 2015. If it...
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15 Blogging Tips For Beginners | boy with a hat
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Ghost Stories: Call for Submissions
A Genteel Ghost (a true story by Roger Britton) I never believed in ghosts before, but now I am not quite sure… perhaps a presence is what I mean… St Mary’s Convent and school, in Warren, central New...
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Sad News: Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird has died aged 89
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Hurrah for Helen Garner!
Helen Garner, one of my favourite Australian writers, who writes across genres, has just won the prestigious Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction. When she received an email asking for...
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Art and the Mermaid
My best friend told me stories about these statues when I stayed with her near Bondi Beach as a young woman. I see the remaining one when I go to Waverley Library. Thanks Libby for this. See Libby...
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Delphi and the Sacred Way
The Sacred Way Two events recently prompted me to revisit this post about Delphi and the renowned oracle. One was a visit to the theatre to see “The Pride”, a comment on society’s changing attitudes...
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The Dance | anne skyvington
Since having my manuscript edited for structure by a professional editor, I have decided to write the novel from a limited (deep or close) point of view. Not my editor’s decision, as she liked Will’s...
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My travel journal 1968: a metaphor
Yugoslavia 1968 It is difficult, almost impossible, to work at a full-time job and to write creatively at the same time. My first writings were straight journal entries. While travelling around...
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