Creative development – part one
This week I spent two days in a creative development for The Kerensky Project. Creative developments can differ wildly in their efficacy and usefulness for a writer. Some are more for the director than the writer. There have been times as a writer when I’ve wondered what I’m doing in the room, and whether the others need me at all in the process. But this one was different. This creative development has been structured so well and has already been so useful to me that I’d like to share my discoveries with you. Some may seem obvious, but I hope this might be useful to other writers/creati

On writing and self
The lovely people at Queensland Writers Centre contacted me to ask if I’d write a post to go on their blog tour. They set me some questions about writing and here are my answers… Where do your words come from? I was about to be flippant and say, ‘from my brain, of course!’ and then I started to think about it. I think they come from my unconscious. I’m unable to write creatively to a plan. Lots of good writers do, but I’m clearly missing the necessary gene for it. I try to follow an outline and, withi