Helping kids with creative writing

Helping kids with creative writing

Term 2 in Victoria is seeing most school children doing school work from home. I’ve heard a lot from parents complaining that their children are struggling to write while at home. Over the years I’ve been working with young writers, including my own...
Read for Fun

Read for Fun

During the week, I watched a video called Why I Don’t Like Reading. This got me thinking about my own reading habits. It may surprise people to know that I don’t always like reading. Don’t get me wrong, I love books. I love stories and full...
10 Prompts – Fairy Tales

10 Prompts – Fairy Tales

I love fractured fairy tales. Often they are my go-to when I have no idea what to write. My first published piece when I decided I wanted to be an author was a fractured fairy tale in an anthology. I had so much fun coming up with the prompts for this weeks 10 Prompts...
Writing just for fun

Writing just for fun

As I type this post, my 18 year old son is down at the supermarket buying ingredients so he can do some baking. He has always enjoyed cooking, but hasn’t had the space to cook for the simple joy of cooking. One advantage of being in isolation is that he has that...
10 Prompts – Fairy Tales

10 Prompts – Dinosaurs

My older son was obsessed with dinosaurs when he was four, and my parents have been making the toy dinosaurs do things every night to entertain my nephews while they are on isolation. So this was an obvious topic for our 10 Prompts on Tuesday. You can purchase this...