I recently discovered Scrivener, a fantastic writing software and project management tool for any longer piece of work, from a travel memoir to a novel. You can organise your material and collate lots of research easily. Even for a technophobe like me, I found the...
I’m reading John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. This is the first line: ‘He was tall, about fifty, with darkly handsome, almost sinister features: a neatly trimmed moustache, hair turning silver at the temples, and eyes so black they were like...
I’ve just had an intense period of working on a new project. I was making myself do around 1000 words a day whatever was happening. It didn’t matter how bad the words were, how resistant I was, I showed up. It’s a powerful act this...
How much do we need to tell the truth in travel writing? This is a question I discussed last week with Ramona Koval on the ABC Radio National Bookshow and again at the Australian Festival of Travel Writers (AFTW) in Melbourne. I was on a panel asking...