High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — [...]
I've always liked Susan Johnson's writing, ever since I found a piece by her in the Griffith Review Journal (Number 32), in which she painted a picture of motherhood that [...]
Getting Off The Ground In this month of November, I see that there are many colleagues and friends on Medium starting out to do just that in National Novel Writing [...]
Just look around you...on the ground and in trees, in the sky... The Fibonacci Sequence is everywhere! In Plants In Pine cones the spiral pattern of the seed pods tend [...]
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 [...]
The Voice that Comes to You Mystery is part of the writing process, and for some writers there are those thrilling moments when a voice “just comes” and takes them [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There's an innate problem with writing about your life, and that is that your relatives might not want to be shown up, warts and all, in a publication. Clive James got around that issue by using humour to recreate his childhood narrative, which is part of an autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs.
It is an unfinished, personal and spiritual account that was, and still is, at odds with the atheistic and scientific direction of society.
