Free resources to support your writing and creative practice. These include exercises, tips and cheat sheets.
You may also like to check out my creative practice articles, interviews with creatives, invitations to upcoming events, mindset insights to help you shift your thinking and notes from my notebook.
Improve your manuscript with these self-editing tips to ensure you have the best possible version of your manuscript ready before submitting
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Download my free Word manuscript template to structure your book, organise chapters and scenes, and prepare your manuscript for submission.
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I know I’m not the only writer who’s asked for some writing feedback only to get a meh response. In this post, I give you some powerful questions that will make sure you get quaility writing feedback.
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Writer’s block can be a frustrating and seemingly insurmountable obstacle. It often arises from internal pressures, such as self-doubt or fear of failure, or external factors like stress or lack of inspiration. Understanding that it’s a common experience can help alleviate some of the pressure. With the right strategies, you can navigate through this creative lull and reignite your passion for writing.
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A few years ago I shifted my thinking from trying to get some marks on the publishing board to aiming for more rejections. It was an important shift in thinking
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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve talked about dealing with those pesky internal critical voices, and making deadlines for yourself when you don’t have any external deadlines. Today, I’m going to talk about some strategies on how to meet those deadlines.. This post is part of a series about deadlines and shutting out the inner critic.
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Are you good at getting things completed when you don’t have a deadline? Not many people are. If you are working as a freelancer, working on your own projects, or working on a manuscript, you might be familiar with how long these things can sometimes take. It’s always easier when someone else tells you when you need to get the work back to them. I find that if I don’t make a deadline, create lists to get things done, then I can take forever. Give me a deadline, and I’m all over it.
I have started back teaching the creative writing this year in Caroline Springs and have added in a group in Kensington. While the Kensington group is a new for me as a facilitator, it’s not new for me altogether.
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I’m more than midway through my second draft of my young adult climate change fiction novel and I feel like I’m climbing an enormous mountain.
This is the hard slog. Now.
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