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The Joy of Writing For Yourself (and no-one else)
In a world filled with publishing schedules, social media posts, newsletters, blogs, and endless content creation, it’s easy for writers to forget why they started writing in the first place. Deadlines, algorithms, and audience expectations can slowly turn a creative passion into another item on a to-do list. That’s why writing solely for yourself can…
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Human Writers in a Synthetic World: The persistence of the heart to write in the age of AI
What it’s like being an ageing emerging writer and writing in spite of AI (and why real writing has more value). You can probably tell that I enjoy using AI to create pictures to accompany my blog posts, because visual art creation is not my thing. If it hasn’t yet crept into your workplace, you’ve…
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Navigating Trauma in Literary Narratives
[Image: vecteezy.com] I have struggled for many years to fit my ‘novel’ to the parameters of traditional creative writing. When I was doing the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Write Your Novel course, I struggled to cram it into the paradigm (framework) we were being taught, rebelled against providing ‘Trigger Warnings’ without scooping the barefaced, confrontational horror…
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Living the Delusion as a Writer
I have just submitted three short stories to yet another competition. This one required an entry fee for each story, so I limited myself. We hear the phrases all the time: Set realistic goals, don’t get ahead of yourself, write what you know. On a bigger scale we sometimes hear: Live The Dream. For a writer, or those who would…
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Crafting a Story Round the Lived Experience of Trauma
*BEFORE my INFORMATIONAL POST, an UPDATE on PROGRESS I ask potential readers to excuse me for taking so long to perfect my novels, but to be a publishable ‘talented’ writer, you need to do a lot of reading of books and articles and websites posted by other authors, and reflecting on lots of facets of…
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Thoughts on storytelling in the age of ‘Social’ Media
This week, I used AI to generate a photo of myself in Piaget’s study. He was one of the pioneers of cognitive behaviour theory, and also an all-round messy bastard. My brain has started to look a bit like this as I learn more and more about writing.
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Just musing on manuscript rejection:
Publishers are looking for certain genres to fill their quotas. They demand authors and characters who readers like. My advice (or just one piece of it), is don’t write to be liked. Write to be honest and then twist the truth about events just enough so nothing can be pinned on you. The moment you…
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There ain’t no cure for the Summertime Blues
I hate the story summer tells, and the way I never seem to belong in it. The time it represents. Those months always seem to come, and linger, for me. They don’t just pass through like any other part of the year; they arrive with a weight, like they know something I don’t, like they’ve…
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Lovely
Before I launch into what it is about being greeted with “hey lovely” that irks me so much, please allow me a grammatical side note which proves I am nasty and picky, not “lovely” at all. There are some adjectives that can go it alone without a noun, but “lovely” is not one of them.…
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More Thoughts on Writing
I write lots of different things, but I write books for the same reason we read them—to find out what happens next. As carefully as I plan it, I never know, going into a story, exactly how it will end, nor even what twists the plot may take away from what I’ve planned. This makes…
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Why I’ve included sex scenes in my writing
Sex is part of the common human experience, and we should write about those, shouldn’t we? I’m always struck by how authors are blithely happy to write shocking scenes of violence or murder (which rarely happens to most of us), yet tell me I’m brave when it comes to writing about sex. Sex can reveal…
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Reflections from the Writing Journey
We live in an era where it’s possible to receive instant gratification in many fields of endeavour, but except for a few notable individuals, it isn’t possible to decide to be a writer and find your inexperienced self on a dais having a Nobel Prize for Literature pinned to your instantly famous chest. Moreover, you…
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AN INTRODUCTION TO MY FUNNY AVATAR’S LIFE OF WRITING
Meg Blomfield was the person I was before I married The Sexy-Hot Kelly Nerd. She had a social media presence under her maiden name so students wouldn’t find her to send her friend requests on Faceflop, or Twittillations on Tweetie-pie or follow her on Instaspam. She is not a born writer, just an entertainer with…
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Margaret R Kelly 