As an author and a teacher of creative writing for kids, teens and adults, I get to talk to a lot of young people about writing. In this special video, I share my TOP 5 WRITING TIPS FOR KIDS – some of the advice and insights I give over and over, but which many...
As the So You Want To Be A Writer podcast approaches its 400th episode, I've been thinking about all the golden writing tips I've heard over the years. I've shared many of them here on this blog (most recently here), but it seems that every episode throws up a new...
There are a lot of writing tips washing about on the internet, in books, at conferences, in bars. Some of them are helpful writing tips, some not so much. In my role as co-host of the So You Want To Be A Writer podcast, I not only give out helpful writing tips, I also...
As part of my plan for be An Organised Writer this year, I'm working through all of the content I have across various platforms and making sure that I bring it back here, to my home on the internet. As I've written before, one of the major benefits of having an author...
When you're starting out as a writer, the best thing you can do is to learn from other writers. The same is true when you're starting out as a published author – you look to the best in the business and try to learn as much as you can. Fortunately, Australian...
As So You Want To Be A Writer, my podcast with Valerie Khoo, approaches its 35th episode this week, I thought I'd take the opportunity to share a few more writing tips from some of the amazing authors I've spoken to over the past few months. If you'd like to listen to...
If there's one thing I love about So You Want To Be A Writer, my podcast with Valerie Khoo, it's the fact that I get to sit around and talk writing with some of the best in the business. And we all know that, like most writers, I like talking about writing even more...
Wondering how to write a better blog? Not what to write, but how to write it. Here are four things that I've learnt about writing a blog over the decade that I've been keeping this one. I hope they'll be of use to you. Get closer I've written about this before, but...
In case you missed it, verse novels for children are having a real moment in the sun. Last year's CBCA Book of the Year for younger readers was a verse novel by Pip Harry called The Little Wave. This year's shortlist contains two verse novels: Bindi by Kirli Saunders...
