by admin | May 14, 2021 | Blog
For a number of years, I’ve been running a Young Writers Group with the Monash Library in Mount Waverley. I have so much fun with the young writers and so do they. Sometimes I’m not sure who is having more fun – me or them! Yesterday was no...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Blog
If you haven’t already heard, last year I took the leap and bought the Junior Writers Club. This is one way I can expand the writers groups I’ve been doing at the library for years, the one that I think How can I do this as a career? after just about every...
by admin | Feb 21, 2021 | Blog
When I was a kid, my family went to church every Sunday. The church we went to put an importance on storytelling. They would have a kids talk that covered the same topic as the sermon, and many adults commented that they got more out of the kids talk than the sermon!...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Blog, Challenge, Short Stories
This afternoon in Virtual Writers Group, the kids requested a random word writing prompt. This is a prompt where I give five random words that may or may not be related, and then you come up with a story that includes those words somehow. I picked five words and they...
by admin | Feb 12, 2021 | Blog
Yesterday, we had our first Writers Group session since COVID-19 caused Victoria to lock down in 2020. I was excited to be driving down the freeway to Melbourne to catch up with the members of the Monash Young Writers Group as well as the amazing staff at the Monash...
by admin | Jan 30, 2021 | Blog
I have a collection of picture books. It didn’t start out as a collection, just books to share with my kids, however, it has grown over the years. It was in 2012 when I started collecting picture books for me rather than the kids. I was writing a princess book...
