‘Is this scene about you?’ Lisa said, her brows furrowed worry-worn grooves. ‘Did this happen to you?’ My writing tutor, Lisa had just read a scene from a manuscript I’m working on about a woman who has an incident with…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 93: Less is More One of the best writing classes I’ve been to was a business writing course. This may seem a strange choice of class for a writer of fiction to attend, but I’ve…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 92: Get Messy Why, when we know that there’s no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 91: The Three C’s Number Three: Conversation This week I had four writers at my home for a two-day writing retreat. There was time to write, time to talk and time to eat and talk.…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 90: The Three C’s Number Two: Community: At the point where you feel like your craft is never going to be good enough, that’s where community comes in. Community is what helps you not to…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 89: The Three C’s Number One: Craft The creative life requires the ‘Three C’s’ — Craft, Community and Conversation. Writing is a solitary pursuit. We sit and tap away on our laptops for hours—alone with…