by Pamela Cook | Dec 30, 2012 | Creativity, Inspiration, Interviews With Writers, The Writing World
Over the next few weeks I’ll be talking to a number of writers about their creative process. Today on the blog I talk to Australian fiction writer Rachael Johns. Rachael is a Rural Romance writer who has had great success with her debut novel Jilted and has just...
by Pamela Cook | Dec 30, 2012 | Inspiration, Writing Tips, Advice and Information
(Image courtesy of creativedoxfoto via freedigitalphotos.net) Quite by accident I found an article on writing this morning by Robert Harris from The Guardian, September 2008. He begins by saying that writing a novel “is not a skill that can be taught” and...
by Pamela Cook | Dec 29, 2012 | Inspiration, Writing Tips, Advice and Information
Today I spent a lovely few hours relaxing with my family at a peaceful spot in the Morton National Park called Yadboro. There’s not much there apart from a rustic camp area, a pebble strewn river and beautiful shady gums. The perfect place to hang out and...
by Pamela Cook | Dec 28, 2012 | Creativity, The Writing World, Writing Tips, Advice and Information
If your December was anything like mine you probably didn’t get much writing done. If it was exactly like mine your writing tally was a big, fat zero! What with family commitments, Christmas get togethers and the excitement of my first novel actually being out there...
by Pamela Cook | Dec 14, 2012 | Blackwattle Lake, The Writing World, Writing Tips, Advice and Information
As all writers who have studied plot would know, conflict is an essential ingredient of any work of fiction. I would even go so far as to say it’s an essential ingredient of riveting memoir (more on that later). In the words of literary agent turned writing guru...
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