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Excerpt: What is the greatest challenge you have had to overcome in your writing career?
"Being an Australian writer, I found that Australian publishers wanted me to write about 'Australiana.' The challenge there was to stick with what I was passionate about and meet with a publisher in the USA that loved my stories." read more
Excerpt: What is the best writing advice you've ever been given?
"Point of View. One cannot have jumping heads... i.e. A reader cannot jump from what one character is thinking to another person's thoughts, all within one one sentence or paragraph. In my more recent novels, I tend to write most of the novel from one character's point of view. If the plot needs something to happen away from this character, I will use a different chapter to change the POV." read more
Excerpt: What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
"Write. Make time to think and breathe and daydream, because those things are your fuel. And listen to writing advice, but don't lock yourself into any framework for writing or creativity or storytelling that is too rigid. There are lots of people trying to push the way to write a book, and there's no such way. There's just the way you write." read more
Excerpt: What is the best writing advice you've ever been given?
"Point of View. One cannot have jumping heads... i.e. A reader cannot jump from what one character is thinking to another person's thoughts, all within one one sentence or paragraph. In my more recent novels, I tend to write most of the novel from one character's point of view. If the plot needs something to happen away from this character, I will use a different chapter to change the POV." read more
Excerpt: What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
"Write. Make time to think and breathe and daydream, because those things are your fuel. And listen to writing advice, but don't lock yourself into any framework for writing or creativity or storytelling that is too rigid. There are lots of people trying to push the way to write a book, and there's no such way. There's just the way you write." read more