With a happy smile I pressed the send button and signed up for Blogging 101. Blogging 101: Zero to Hero Blogging 101 is three weeks of bite-size blogging assignments that take you from “Blog?” to “Blog!” Every weekday, you’ll get a new assignment […]
Twenty-Five Years Celebration. The Women’s Healthy Aging Project (WHAP) is a longitudinal study of over 400 randomly sampled Australian-born women. In 1990, hairdressing scissors in my hand I beat my two small boys to the telephone. A voice asked […]
What does ‘a lick and a promise’ mean? Just that I have one tiny hour free to write this blog before life drags me away, yet again. I’ve made a pact with myself I’ll pull whatever I can together in […]
Committing to writing a blog once a week ensures I keep my focus on achievable deadlines. I also find it gives me the writing space I need to plan what I want to do in the coming months, but most of all […]
What triggers a story for you? Certain incidents that occur as part of my daily life can often trigger a story. I find that an insensitive shopper, a kind deed or intriguing meeting will fire my imagination. Before I know it I’m tapping away on the computer […]
Writing is all about new experiences. It was going to be a quiet Easter munching chocolate and catching up with odd jobs and chores when the mobile phone rang. Paul revealed that good friends of his, David and Belinda were […]
Often it is the day to day experiences that trigger stories. This morning I was afraid to go into the water. What if Musk duck was there? I had never seen a Musk duck in the canal before and he […]
Greeks, Romans and Spaniards, Ole Brenda Addie is Dean of Academic Studies and is responsible for the Academic Program at Whitley College Melbourne. Her passion is the theatre and ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE THEATRE TOURS started as an idea to trace the […]
The Veneta (Welcome) Fiesta: celebrating the world of Latin America, Portugal and Spain From the moment I became passionate about writing I see life’s everyday happenings as stories. I have become an observer who wants to capture and record what is happening around […]
What writer hasn’t been tempted to enter an International Competition? I was thrilled to bits when Pickle to Pie won the Ilura Press International Fiction Quest and a publishing contract. A more ethical and nurturing small press publisher would be […]
Wendy Ronalds. I first met Wendy Ronalds at the Living Now Wellness Centre in Seaford where I was teaching How to Write and Publish Your Stories. My aim was, and is, to encourage people to write their own stories. […]
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“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin Despite a chill wind straight for Antarctica and a train strike […]