Reading Time: 3 minutes For me, writing about trauma is confusing. Having experienced some similar traumas to the main character (and narrator) in my book, I feel I’m able to give her voice a lot of authenticity. However, a lot of the experiences in the book also trigger some of my own, and I end up feeling a lot…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Children’s author Josh Langley is a guru when it comes to how to be creative and let go of your fears. How do I know this? Well, he helped me. I first met Josh Langley at the 2016 Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, where we were both participating authors. Josh and I met at…
Reading Time: 2 minutes When it comes to editing a novel, Stephen King suggests leaving your first draft to rest. “How long you let your book rest” (2010, p. 211) he says “–sort of like dough between kneadings–is entirely up to you, but I think it should be a minimum of six weeks” (2010, p. 211). I left mine for…