Ten reasons to keep a journal

I’m going on my trip to Tasmania next week, and a trip always means one thing to me: a journal. I love it. The journal records far more than the trip: it becomes, in years to come, a trip itself. Journals of different kinds – writer’s journal, gratitude journal, daily journal – have been faithful companions… Continue reading Ten reasons to keep a journal

How to write for your audience every single week

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