by Anne Skyvington | Sep 23, 2015 | Craft of Writing
Voice as Metaphor The elusive concept of Voice is one of the most difficult aspects of the craft of writing to explain in words. Like persona in Jungian psychology, it is more easily understood as a metaphor; persona is often explained in terms of actors on the stage...
by Anne Skyvington | May 23, 2015 | Craft of Writing
Many writers on literary structure and theory present a linear figure to portray the format of a short story, the narrative arc, of a memoir or a novel. Kal Bashir, however, represents structure in screen plays and in the above mentioned genres as circular. This fits...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 6, 2015 | Craft of Writing
This is an early excerpt from a chapter of my novel “Karrana”, second draft well under way at this stage. When he got to Halfway Creek, he had to stop to catch his breath. It was pitch black now with the stars blotted out by the height of the trees and the...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 2, 2015 | Craft of Writing
How is Fiction Writing a Form of Folly? In order to understand the features of fiction, it is helpful to examine the features of an opposite type of writing: the academic essay. I taught Academic English to overseas students at the University of New South Wales in...
by Anne Skyvington | May 19, 2014 | Craft of Writing
Establishing Parameters and Guidelines One of the main benefits of joining a writers group is to receive feedback on your writing. We’d been talking a lot about giving and receiving valid feedback in our writers group, especially in the early days of...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 27, 2012 | Craft of Writing
An editor at a recent workshop stressed the importance of “keeping it real”, when writing fiction. That is, at least partly, why I started off on the writing journey with memoir. From there I moved on to writing memoir using fictional techniques of...
