After reading, Educate yourself, then educate others: WAR, Invasion Day and treaty by Massimo Amerena, a powerful article indeed, I would like to add, yes educate yourself, but also engage in healthy self-reflection of your own attitudes and behaviours. Reflection can be very a powerful tool in identifying a person’s attitude, beliefs and biases. In […]
Experience inspires enrichment. Enrichment produces the human element #writingrealcharacters
May 24, 2018 by
I’ve always been a person who believes in experiencing life. I’ve done this for as long as I can remember. If I could only tell you all of the experiences I’ve had, some better than others, I would. But the stories would take years to tell. Each one was experienced in real moments of my […]
When Cancer Comes Knocking Writers Write. #DepthofMeaning
May 12, 2018 by
I wasn’t sure how to begin this. With most stories, we writers often agonise over our first sentence. The events that lead… When I first heard… My heart was heavy… Well, here we go. Yesterday the word cancer was not rooted in my world quite as deeply as it is today. Because yesterday I didn’t […]
Creative chat: How do we deal with rejection and disappointment?
February 6, 2018 by
I’d like to provide some clarity on success and failure. I’ve received my first rejection for the year. See, I do receive rejections too! REJECTED I think it’s important that writers, creatives and artists view these situations as steps forward and not back. Myself, having studied counselling, community services and now social welfare, working both […]
Another year goes by! 2018 will be great. #GreatBeginnings #PositiveThoughts
December 29, 2017 by
I’ve had a great year! I’m very grateful to have experienced small personal progress artistically with my first play performed as a play reading with actors under the professional guidance of a director, then I had another poem published in an art and literature journal and I was lucky to see one of my microfiction […]
A writing project in #8words by Queensland Writers Centre #change #love #home #play
November 23, 2017 by
Do you have an #8wordstory busting to get out? What would you write about? Which category/prompt would you be writing about? #change #love #home or #play Southport I was very grateful to judge Nick Earls for selecting my story to be broadcast on the GOA digital billboards in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. […]
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