by Anne Skyvington | Mar 8, 2018 | Craft of Writing
View Post Definitions of Narrative Personas According to Ernest Hemingway, the writer’s job is “to sit in front of the page and bleed”. But it’s not the person in flesh-and-blood who is there in the page, but a persona called the narrator, who...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 9, 2018 | Craft of Writing
My Writer’s Voice: A Childhood Spent on the North Coast of NSW The historical photograph of my hometown, with the Clarence River and Susan Island across the water, brings me back to long-forgotten memories of childhood evenings underneath a balmy, star-spangled sky in...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 5, 2017 | Craft of Writing
Point-of-View in the 19th Century In his fictional work, A Million Windows (Giramondo 2014) Gerald Murnane writes: “At one extreme is the boldness and directness of the nineteenth-century writer of fiction who informs the reader, as though possessing an...
by Anne Skyvington | Mar 8, 2017 | Craft of Writing
Traditional Versus Modern Voices Why have I chosen the following photo from my place of birth, Grafton, taken in 1924, as an introduction to this post? For several reasons: I like it very much, firstly because of its classical and historical attributes, as well...
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 29, 2016 | Craft of Writing
The Road Not Taken – A Poem by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Robert Frost (1874-1963) See the whole...
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 11, 2016 | Craft of Writing
The Craft of Writing Please note that I have recently changed the description of my blog to “The Craft of Writing”, which correlates with the main goal of my website. I thank my kindly blogging expert, Gina for this suggestion. I admit that I am no expert...
