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Continue reading →: Short Story: Kookaburra Singing1 I’m in the car park. My dads message beeps noisily as I step through the automatic doors. An overwhelming slap of heat takes me by surprise. I spent many years living under the sweltering tropical overhead of the top end’s wet season, yet today its monsoonal envelope embraces my shoulders so completely that…
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Continue reading →: That time you accidentally wrote a YA novelHere I was, thinking I’d come up with the most original idea of the century. My novel had a riveting plot, unique characters, and a twist you would never see coming! Except… it all just seemed so damn familiar. My story was about a young girl with special, hidden powers who enters a new…
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Continue reading →: I dream a dream of writing full-time #thewriterslifeIsn’t this the biggest wish of most aspiring, new and established authors? For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to be a published author, as I’m sure many of you do do! Or perhaps your wish is to become a successful freelancer, website designer, food blogger extraordinaire, ghost-writer, savvy…
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Continue reading →: On writing a “romantic” sceneOK so writing “romantic” scenes doesn’t come naturally to me, the whole thing makes me blush. In fact, I feel awkward just writing this post. While writing the one romantic scene in my book, I snorted and laughed with every word and key stroke and couldn’t stop thinking about what my family…
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Continue reading →: Pantser, plotter, plotser or panter?I am currently in the editing phase for my novel and I am strongly considering the need to change from a pantser to a plotter. My work is all over the place, there are plot holes and repeated prose, loose ends and untidy beginnings In case you’ve never heard of the terms…
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Continue reading →: A ‘very’ long list of words to avoid when writingI’m in the editing phase for a novel right now and I have been searching through my first draft (thanks Ctr+f) and deleting and editing certain phrases. I already knew to avoid words such as ‘suddenly’ and ‘a lot’. But there are so many more I had no idea about…
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Continue reading →: 10 things you need to know before you date a writerWriter’s really do a need a label to warn any potential suitors about the supermassive black hole they are about to step into. Because once you get sucked in, there’s no way you’ll be leaving.
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Continue reading →: 10 blogs writers should be following by new & upcoming authorsSince re-animating my long dead twitter, I have uncovered a whole new world of literary connections. Among them are thousands upon thousands of blogs written by new, aspiring and upcoming authors. After combing through at least two hundred websites, during which I found a few spectacular duds, I managed to…
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