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Writers Don’t Think They Have Something To Say

posted on April 19, 2017

So many people idealise about writing a book. They have grand plans to leave a legacy, share their story or help others. How many do you think actually achieve those lofty goals? I don't know …

Category: WritingTag: barbara ueland, writing

Writing A Good Non-Fiction Book … Fast

posted on April 13, 2017

In any endeavour in life, if you're not learning you risk going stale and becoming outdated in your methods. The moral is - always be learning. Robert Plank is one of the most prodigious people …

Category: Publishing, WritingTag: how to write a book fast, writing, writing a book

voice to text book writing

How To Write – Without Writing!

posted on March 3, 2017

Just tested using Google Docs Voice tool. Holy Toledo!! Why haven't I done this before?!? You know, writing can be a hard slog. Tapping away at the keyboad letter by letter. It takes time. And to …

Category: Miscellaneous, WritingTag: dictation, speak your book, writing

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Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method

posted on May 15, 2014

Sounds so sweet, doesn’t it? The Snowflake Method. Little shards of snowy ice fluttering around us, carpeting the ground and one by one they form a whole. As innocuous as it sounds, the Snowflake …

Category: WritingTag: snowflake, snowflake method, writing

On Becoming a Writer

posted on April 11, 2014

I became a writer by writing. I remember almost all of my undergraduate creative writing teachers saying, Just write, and things will happen Quoted by Carrie Oeding from her teachers in her BA …

Category: WritingTag: becoming a writer, writing

Lost To The Craft Of Writing

posted on January 6, 2014

But not their words which is one of their legacies. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons we write, to leave a little of us in the world after we move on. This is a fitting tribute to just some of the …

Category: WritersTag: writing

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Aussie writer Mel Day writes urban crime. Crime where a snarky, badass female sleuth manages to make up for inept policing and find justice where none was going to be found. Specialising in short stories, she's extending into novellas and novels.

Mel wasn't born clutching a pen in her fist but she certainly came to writing early. Most of her writing has been non-fiction until she emerged on the fiction scene in 2019.

Living on the gorgeous East Coast of Australia with her partner Mel manages to avoid getting in the sea yet revels in its majesty, power and joy.

When she hasn't got a laptop on her knee pounding out words, she's out volunteering getting way too involved in way too many things.
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