General Ramblings
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The cure for many ills, noted Jung, is to build something, and this is the epigraph and theme of Amanda Lohrey’s atmospheric novel, The Labyrinth (Text). It’s my second read by a Tassie author this month and further proof that the briney air of that island casts quite a spell on its writers. This one
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Reading is what fuels my writing, and possibly since deleting my Twitter account I’ve gotten back into it big time. Here are a few books I’ve adored recently. How to End a Story by Helen GarnerOof. Helen Garner’s account of her marriage breakdown to ‘V’. Beautiful writing, as always, and so much narrative tension I
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Recently I wrote a piece for an online writer’s group about how I finally achieved a publishing contract for my novel, The Night Village (out in August). It is easy to see the path to publication in retrospect, and to polish over the missteps and times when it was barely visible, or so cluttered with
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While ordinary writers paddle between the flags at the beach, a poet will free dive the Titanic. They go there. And yet, the word poet just sounds so genteel and lovely.
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Starting a new blog has been on my to-do list for a while. A social media presence is helpful for writers, and as I am currently revising my novel in the hope of having it accepted for publication I need to start now. However, in October 2018 I moved with my family to Berlin, my
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