When you're starting out as a writer, the best thing you can do is to learn from other writers. The same is true when you're starting out as a published author – you look to the best in the business and try to learn as much as you can. Fortunately, Australian...
With the end of the silly season in sight, I'm focussing on the calm, blue waters of the holidays on the other side, and what I see is Time. Time to read, time to write, time to think. I find the couple of weeks after Christmas afford me an excellent opportunity to...
Looking for writing advice and tips? You've come to the right place. In 2015, these were my top ten posts about writing (as voted by you) in reverse order to maintain suspense... 10. Be passionate but be practical 9. 5 surprising writing tips from top Aussie authors...
If there's one thing I love about So You Want To Be A Writer, my podcast with Valerie Khoo, it's the fact that I get to sit around and talk writing with some of the best in the business. And we all know that, like most writers, I like talking about writing even more...
These five tips are gleaned from a conference panel I did with Valerie Khoo and Kerri Sackville called 'How to use your blog to get paid writing opportunities'. This is a summary of our five key points on how to find writing work beyond your blog. Hope you find it...
I have decided that I will no longer refer to myself as a writer. I am now a waiter. Not in the sense of delivering dishes to your table, hot and without finger marks in the gravy. Rather in the sense of waiting by the mailbox. Or the inbox, as is mostly the...
You might need a cup of tea for this one... August has been a crazy-busy month, featuring planes, trains and automobiles, Book Week, the MS Readathon, the first Your Kid's Next Read Live event, and media appearances on television, radio and in print. Add to that the...
Last week, So You Want To Be A Writer, the podcast that I co-host with the wonderful Valerie Khoo from the Australian Writers' Centre, ticked over a new milestone: one million downloads. One. Million. To mark the occasion, I thought I'd share my favourite author...
WELCOME TO MY WORLD! I'm Allison Tait, a multi-genre writer with 20+ years experience across different aspects of publishing, including non-fiction books, magazine and newspaper feature writing, copywriting, digital content creation, social media management, teaching,...
