Category: Writing

  • Have You Ever Experienced The “Numen”?

    Have You Ever Experienced The “Numen”?

    The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning below. Numinous ( /ˈnjuːmɪnəs/) is a concept derived from the Latin “numen” meaning “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring”. numinosum, numinous, numinosity (Wikipedia)…

  • In Search of a Voice

    In Search of a Voice

    My writing started out as therapy for a polarised — to be explained later on — childhood. My own background had been stamped indelibly by my not having had a voice within the extended family I was born into. Others in my family had gorged themselves on yackety-yak, thereby filling the void left by my…

  • A Famous Couple

    A Famous Couple

    Carl and Emma: A Love Story Dearest, I was telling our grandson, Andreas, just the other day, how he possesses the feeling function more strongly than I. He had just espied, while on our walk, a darling dead chaffinch on the ground, and was kneeling over its poor lifeless body. The words, Nothing truly dies…

  • Voice and Truth in Fiction

    Voice and Truth in Fiction

    A little on point of view first… Point of view refers to who sees the action within a story or novel. You can have multiple points of view, so long as each shift from one character to another is adequately marked, by way of punctuation; for example by starting a new paragraph, or a new…

  • How To Find A Voice For Your Novel

    How To Find A Voice For Your Novel

    The Voice that Comes to You…or Not Mystery is part of the writing process, and for some writers there are those thrilling moments when a voice “just comes” and takes them along with it. In fact, however, most of us must create narrators and characters through considering craft, especially point of view and voice. And…

  • Write about what you know … 3 authors who recently did just that!

    Three colleagues who assisted me in getting my writing off the ground, have just published new works: Dina Davis with A Dangerous Daughter (Cilento Publishing), who avoided lockdown and actually had a book launch in Darwin recently; Helene Grover missed out by a hair’s breadth to publicly launch her memoir, Sometimes the Music (Cilento Publishing),…

  • Revisiting Persephone in the Underworld

    Revisiting Persephone in the Underworld

    My Links to the Myth I have for a long while been drawn to the archetype of Persephone, who must descend into the underworld for half the year. My connection is linked to a long-term personal wish and desire for growth and change through psychological means. Personal attraction to an archetype is like an urgent…

  • The Night of the Barricades

    The Night of the Barricades

    I open my eyes onto a strange world into which I’ve stumbled as if by chance. All is new and filled with an alien radiance, muted colours, greys yet beautiful. Hippies are twanging their guitars along the Seine. Flower sellers and precious bookstall owners hawk their wares along the promenades above. The ancient cobblestones conceal…

  • How I Created My Debut Novel

    How I Created My Debut Novel

    The Story of the Novel Those in the know say Write about what you know. This could be my parents’ love story, with the boring bits left out. My story takes place in a raw and natural setting called Karrana, where a stunningly attractive young woman is ready to break out of her universe and…

  • Randwick Writers’ Group: Sharing Writing Skills

    Randwick Writers’ Group: Sharing Writing Skills

    A book about writing groups Joining a writing group is very popular these days, at least in Anglo speaking countries. There are many different types of writing groups, just as there are various types of writers. Some writers simply wish to record memories for their family, children and friends to read. Writing correctly and clearly…