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Malabar Headland in Sydney
Malabar the Suburb Malabar Headland One of the last remaining wild areas on the eastern seaboard of Sydney has recently been rescued from the hands of developers through protest and last-minute...
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The French Approach to “Anti-Racism” — Pretty Words and Magical Thinking
Anne Skyvington:When I lived in France as a young woman, I was inspired by the French slogan linked to the French Revolution, Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité: Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood. But in...
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Statins and the Healthy Food Debate
A French Market I was recently advised by doctors that I should take statins to lower my blood cholesterol reading. The statins lowered my reading quite quickly to half what it was before. Originally...
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How to Improve Your Writing
Waverley Writers Group: Friends of Waverley Library (FOWL) that meets monthly in Bondi Buddy System or Restricted Small Group? American Writers’ Sites tend to recommend the use of Buddy Systems when it...
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Irony and Fun in “Double Madness”
Published by Margaret River Press, 2015 http://www.margaretriverpress.com/catalogue/new-releases/double-madness/ If you like detective stories and a rollicking good read, with a nice dose of...
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A Grandma’s Welcome to a Long-Awaited Grandson
Then: December 13th November, 2008 It was around 4am when Grandad Mark’s mobile phone rang, waking us from our sleep. Thirty minutes earlier, our daughter Kate had rolled out of bed onto the floor in a...
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Memoir Writing
According to Marian Roach Smith’s definition, “Memoirs are selections from your life story, shaped by theme, driven by a few burning questions. So the question the reader brings is: why these bits of...
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What is this thing called Voice?
The elusive concept of Voice is one of the most difficult aspects of the craft of writing to explain in words. Like persona in Jungian psychology, it is more easily understood as a metaphor, and is...
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Flame Trees
I was born and grew up in the far north coast town of Grafton. Actually, it was on the south side of the Clarence River at a place called Waterview. My wordpress header is from a photo I found on...
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An Aussie bloke remembers: Guest post by Ian (Harry) Wells
“Life Was Fun in the Forties and Fifties” by Ian (Harry) Wells The iceman cometh… “Take-away” back in the forties and fifties, when I was a kid, meant a sum in arithmetic at school. Nothing else....
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Do You Really Know How To “Show, Don’t Tell”?
Anne Skyvington:More thoughts About Show Don’t Tell Originally posted on A Writer's Path: Yesterday marked my deadline for completing the pre-edits for Marred. “Pre-edits” seems like it would be an...
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to plot or not to plot…and how to get it down
The last reblogged posting by Vincent Mars, (boy with a hat), has stimulated some more thoughts on the topic of handwriting versus typing (or wordprocessing). Ian (Harry) Wells, who, like Vincent,...
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High Flights: Beginnings and Endings
Lines from the poem, “High Flight” slipped into my mind, while I was flying over the Channel on the way to Heathrow Airport. That last line was a douzy! Mark and I were returning home from Paris via...
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The Great Beauty
A perfect day for a walk In the movie “The Great Beauty”, the 2013 Italian film by Paolo Sorrentino, a tourist, after taking photos in Rome, collapses and dies. The message is clear: See Rome and...
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J’aime la France
Chez Véronique and Thierry in Montparnasse The mingling together of two disparate cultures, the French and the Australian, is perfectly symbolised by the existence of my French/Australian niece and...
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Listen to this organ in Croatia that uses the sea to make hauntingly...
The music from this organ is like nothing you’ve ever heard. Source: Listen to this organ in Croatia that uses the sea to make hauntingly beautiful music.Filed under: Creative Features
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Blogging a Book, and what I learnt through blood, sweat and tears…lesson one
The Writer The Writer is not the Narrator and the Narrator is not the Writer The Narrator The Character A mistake I made for a long time—just up until a few minutes ago, in fact—even...
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My travel journal 1968: a metaphor
Yugoslavia 1968 It is difficult, almost impossible, to work at a full-time job and to write creatively at the same time. My first writings were straight journal entries. While travelling around...
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An Australiana (True) Story
A Walleroo Ned and his Neddy A short story by Roger Britton You meet some interesting characters in the country, or the ‘bush’, as we Australians like to call the countryside. I had been transferred to...
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A Guest Poem: First Loves
Roger writes… One night, on hearing a piece of music, grief overwhelmed me. I sat down and wrote this poem, fifty-seven years after the event. I rushed into it with little regard to rhyme, rhythm or...
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