As part of my plan for be An Organised Writer this year, I'm working through all of the content I have across various platforms and making sure that I bring it back here, to my home on the internet. As I've written before, one of the major benefits of having an author...
After a lot of hard work from a lot of people, my online creative writing course for kids is now open for bookings through the Australian Writers' Centre! So much goes into creating a course like this, from developing the course content, to creating each module, to...
There's nothing like getting up in front of 100+ grade-five boys to talk about writing to ... clarify the mind. As you look out across the endlessly wiggling room, the ones who are staring at you as though you are a science experiment they'd quite like to dissect, the...
As an author who’s regularly asked to visit schools for talks and workshops, I have one main question for educators: Who am I talking to? I find that the candidates for small group workshops tend to be made up of what I like to call the Keen Beans – kids who LOVE...
Mr7 and I have been talking about description lately. His English classes at school are beginning to move along from straight recount - we did this, and then we did this, and then we did this - and into writing. His teacher has been trying to encourage some...
I've been busy. Noticing a trend in the Your Kid's Next Read Facebook (YKNR) community of members looking for 'short middle-grade novels', I set out to write an article for the YKNR newsletter's paid subscribers about what might be driving the interest, some...
I love a bookish gift – something book-related, but not necessarily a book. (Don't get me wrong, I love the books too. Give me all the books.) But I don't think you can go wrong with a bookish gift for kids and teens. Something to add to that teetering pile of gaily...
I've been out and about talking about writing, teaching writing, writing about writing... what I haven't been doing is blogging about writing here, on my actual blog. So, to make up for it, here's a list of blog posts, full of writing tips and advice, you may have...
One of the best – and most difficult – things to develop as a writer is your own 'voice'. That X factor that makes your writing inherently, well, yours. I'll be visiting schools up and down the coast over the next few weeks, giving talks and presentations, including...
