syn·aes·the·sia – a subjective sensation that occurs in one sense modality when another modality is stimulated…. syn·aes·thet'ic – involving more than one sense
Known for writing on controversial subjects. In 2014 got the Nora Roberts lifetime achievement award. Writing conventions – a group of introverts pretending to be extroverts for a weekend who collapse in a heap when they get home. Thanks to conferences and the internet, writing is not the isolated experience it once was. Creativity and […]
Anita Heiss is an academic, who started writing women’s fiction with indigenous heroines. She has been accused of dumbing down her work, betraying readers of her academic works. However wanted to write stories for indigenous women that reflected life her experience – telling stories. She has been described as inventing Koori chick lit / choc […]
Author Alison Stuart, runs Scrivener workshops for beginners. Scrivener is NOT a word processing program, it is a type of project management software to organise your writing and notes. How to create a new document: Select: New project Type of project eg fiction Type of fiction eg Novel / short story
Alison Goodman is an Australian writer of Young Adult fiction, including YA historical supernatural fiction set in the Regency period. Her seminar looked at four different diagnositic tools that can be used to analyse a scene to work out if it works, and what can be improved. Useful tools to take your scenes to the […]
Chris Corbett has written over forty hours of television – including episodes of MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES, STINGERS, THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES, BLUE HEELERS, THE SECRET LIFE OF US, MCLEOD’S DAUGHTERS and ALL SAINTS. He also wrote and produced the short films FENCES and THE APPLICANT which have screened at various festivals around the world including Tropfest and […]
Despite good intentions, I once again got behind with posts. This was due to a number of reasons, including: making cards for the crazy Christmas period making different cards for the New Year period going into hospital for major surgery on 23 December while I was recovering from surgery, my brother visited from the UK, […]
Plotting to create ‘narrative traction’, the page turning quality that drives readers through a book (and keeps them up until 3am) Aims: To learn new way of thinking about both writing and reading that raises your awareness of how page turning quality is created To learn techniques and strategies for writing narrative traction
Graham Simsion is the author of The Rosie Project, background is in script writing He is the only person who could have written The Rosie Project, but everyone has the ability to write their own story. Male protagonist (Don) was easy to write, Rosie was the hardest – was originally called Clara but she was […]
CS Pacat is the author of the ‘Captive Prince’ trilogy. Captive Prince and Prince’s Gambit are currently available, and Kings Rising will be available in February 2016. “In order to write romance we must allow ourselves to be seen, really seen, and that is an act of great courage.” – CS Pacat
Kate Cuthbert (Escape digital imprint) and Sue Brockhoff (Harlequin Single Title) Pitching is way to get attention, get to know editor or publishing house Good way of getting manuscript in front of editor Before you pitch: Are you ready? Who Who are you pitching to? What are they looking for? What are they […]
