I know, I should be concentrating singularly on Child Writes... but you know how passionate I am about getting these Child Writes books into other people's hands! At least a little part of each other day is spent on www.writersweb.com.au where Australian writers become authors by being read and reviewed. You can see the fit, right? ..
I was thinking about you all as I backed tutor Jodie Rigby with the editing last week. I agree with Jodie, the feedback from an editor is not always nice because we work so hard on our words and having to delete or change them doesn't always make us feel good. ..
I was intrigued from the beginning – ‘to get here, we are in Redfern Street, Redfern, just look for the Marian Embassy’ – really! If that is possibly not the best ‘hook’ ever for starting an adventure, I don’t know what would be! ..
Margie Warrell recently wrote an article for Forbes.com 'Self Promotion is Not Crucial - unless you want to get ahead'. I liked her suggestions for setting yourself up to self promote well, rather than be considered a braggart. ..
September 11th
and 12th 
Finding things you really want to write about is easy... All you need to do is to look for something that when you actually stare at it, makes your heart sing. ..
It was completely fascinating watching the news this week. Whilst many of you may be been glued to budget announcements, (I certainly was – for a while) I couldn’t help but be fascinated by the story from Henry Samuel in Paris about the apartment which was discovered untouched, after 70 years without occupancy. ..
Giddy-up - have just been invited by Ian McCallum to join in the fun! Animated Spaces is an arts project set for August in Toowoomba this year, along with four other Queensland towns; Charters Towers, Eudlo, Redlands and Hervey Bay. There are three projects in Toowoomba on the weekend of August 23rd and 24 - Tarn McLean's Real Time, Your Time at the main intersection of Toowoomba's CBD, and Andrew McDonald's Up The Creek, a site specific installation using found materials from around the creek. ..
