I’d asked the students in my Creative Writing class to pick an object in the room that symbolised how they were feeling that night. Each student read, and we all heard about the requisite blank-pieces-of-paper-waiting-to-be-filled, and doors-open-in-anticipation. Then we got to Rhonda*. She sighed, picked up her piece of paper, and read: “Tonight I feel… Continue reading How to write for your audience every single week
Category: Performance and creativity
A return on you
Here’s what happens when you tell people that you’re going from Australia to Canada not for a holiday, but a course. Wide eyes. “What? A… a course? All that way for a course?” And after a little pause, “Are you going to do a little sightseeing while you’re there?” What’s funny here is that people… Continue reading A return on you
Brick walls
Yesterday was the last session of my pilot program for people who want to write a non-fiction book, Cover-to-Cover Power. I bid the budding authors farewell with this quote because I knew they were facing brick walls. And you know what? That is OK. Brick walls are commonplace when there is a mammoth task ahead.… Continue reading Brick walls