02 Jan Creating Karrana
A: As a little girl I was free to roam in nature, where I became a part of it — its rhythms, its colours. ...
27 Dec What I learnt from writing a novel…
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...
05 Nov At the Swimming Pool
A Short Story Jeanie is one of these inch worm types. One toe in; one toe back. The cold has always been alien. From birth, really. Even today, with the water temperature around twenty degrees. Babies are gurgling in mothers’ and fathers’ arms in the pool,...
23 Oct Candidly Yours…
In search of a voice...
08 Sep Ancient Stories from Childhood
As a child growing up in a valley where diversity was met with suspicion, I learnt, first-hand, about racism. However, I also saw paradoxes within my cocooned world, and turned to STORY to try to understand the conflicted reality surrounding me like a grey pall...
05 Jun Self publishing a novel as an ebook
What a month it has been! No, make that two—or three...
25 May Return to Cavtat…uvijek!
We're here in Cavtat on the southern coast of Croatia, for the 4th International Symposium on Stuttering that my husband convenes. Participants come from more than a dozen countries, from Europe, Asia, the UK, America and the Pacific region. We are a going to visit...
25 Apr Genre in Writing
This post from December 2016, has been re-edited and re-published in April, 2019. Broad and Narrow Genres Since the proliferation of Creative Writing courses in universities in the Anglo world, much has been written and said about “genre” in writing. Creative Writing contrasts with Nonfiction Writing in the...
20 Apr Another Look at Point of View
More confusion surrounds the concept of Point of View in fiction writing than any other term. One of the problems is that writers, and I have been guilty of this sin, have come to utilize Point Of View (POV) both in the broad sense of perceiving,...
12 Apr Structuring a Short Story
Note: I first published this post on this blog in February, 2013. I have added little to the original for re-scheduling it in April 2019, apart from photos and some minor formatting changes. I have also added Kate Forsythe's more complex pyramid diagram below. How do...