autobiography

Open Mic Night 100

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Whatever your talent, Busybird’s Open Mic Night is a great place to showcase your wares. And, of course, you can just come along and watch!

Open Mic Night 99

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Whatever your talent, Busybird’s Open Mic Night is a great place to showcase your wares. And, of course, you can just come along and watch!

Write

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I take immense pride in writing as a craft, so it annoys me when people trivialise it, consider it a shtick, or don’t take it as seriously as they should. … Continued

Breaking Down Content: Part I

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Lots of writers look for a formula in writing, e.g. a novel should be 80,000 words each chapter should be 2,000 words 80,000/2,000 = 40 chapters. And then they’ll try … Continued

The Story YOU Want to Tell

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Lots of people are interested in writing memoir. And, because it’s memoir, they think it’s going to be easy. The whole story’s there, isn’t it? You just have to now … Continued

Karma Kinglake Writing Retreat

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After driving through winding roads and wondering if you’re going the right way, you see it emerge from the gum trees: Karma Kinglake, a rustic house rebuilt from the ashes … Continued

Chronology

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Writing memoir presents us with different challenges to writing fiction. Even though the story’s there in its entirety – after all, we’ve lived it – a lot of people ask, … Continued