1. ARTICLE - REDISCOVERING THE JOYS OF WRITING
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...rom submitting material until I wrote an article entitled “The Magic of Christmas”.  The editor on the local paper accepted it, and I went from strength to strength.  I now write...

2. READER FEEDBACK - GET YOUR BOOK OFF THE GROUND
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...n putting together a story from start to finish, but also provides inspiration along the way” F.M. (editor and fiction writer, Vic) “It's concise and the fact that it doesn't preac...

3. INTERVIEW - TONY PARK
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...ing for someone to write mass market fiction set in Africa. So I arrived at just the right time. I got an editorial report (from Macmillan) and had to change quite a lot around, including changing it ...

4. BOOK REVIEW - Get Your Book off the Ground
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... He shows that courage sometimes pays off. And the other author, Suzanne Male, is a writer, publisher and editor who draws on her marketing experience and shows us how to take our work from the finish...

5. BOOK REVIEW - Get Your Book off the Ground
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...diting and, critically, experience in selling what he has written. Suzanne Male is a journalist, writer, editor, publisher and marketing professional. She is the founder of Smink Works Books (publish...

6. ARTICLE The Real Gains of Literary Competitions
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...dience. Previous winner Geoff Lemon recently launched his first book Sunblind and is currently the poetry editor of the literary magazine Harvest. Many other entrants and place-getters have gone on to...

7. ARTICLE How to Promote Yourself
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...s relevant television programs, and create an excel spreadsheet with these details including the names of editors and producers.   When pitching yourself and your work, remember to present yourse...

8. ARTICLE What is a Poem?
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...d satisfying. However, rejection can be equally fast and brutal. Three weeks ago, I sent off a poem to an editor I’ve respected for over 25 years, Paul Grover at Studio. Within two hours, there&...

9. ARTICLE Can that Novel Desire become a Reality?
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...- it's all part of getting into print. 10. Publishing. Try to realise that publishing is a business. Editors are responsible to their bosses for making money on the books they accept for publishi...

10. COURSE How to Write a Short Story
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HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY Teacher: Melita Granger Accomplished writer, editor and qualified trainer Melita Granger is offering the online course HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY Course length: 6 wee

11. ARTICLE How to Write a Biography - 12 Thoughts
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...phy is more than placing on paper the literal recording of the spoken answers of interviewees. Without my editorial work of organising anecdotes, remembrances and opinions from a wide range of people ...

12. ARTICLE What to do when you run out of words
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...xt step and so on. (Simple, yes, but it really does work.) 9. Use the energy of the creator, not the editor. We need access to both the voice of creation and the voice of editing/discernment, but...

13. ARTICLE Everything in Synk
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...w. All was travelling well. I had moved into the position of facilitating the Loop committee and was head editor of the page. We were publishing a consistent number of articles each fortnight, and wer...

14. ARTICLE The Act of Writing - The Text
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...h any more books: this was the case of “Perfume” by Patrick Sussekind.  At the time, his editor (who is also mine in Germany) published two full pages in the local newspapers, one wit...

15. ARTICLE Turning Clay into Sculpture
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Turning Clay into Sculpture: An Author’s View on the Editing Process This is the process my editor and I use for each Hal book, and I thought I'd share because it really is a great way to w

16. ARTICLE The 10½ Commandments
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...synonym for "gestured". I used to think writing was a natural process, almost easy, but as editor of Locus Charles Brown likes to say, writing is one of those jobs that gets harder the ...

17. ARTICLE Hey, Cut it Out!
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For more than a dozen years now, I have worked as a non fiction editor and now and then dipped into fiction editing. Although there are obvious differences – non-fiction editing is generally co

18. BOOK Get your Book off the Ground
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...n putting together a story from start to finish, but also provides inspiration along the way” F.M. (editor and fiction writer, Vic) “It's concise and the fact that it doesn't preac...

19. ARTICLE Danny Elfman is my Muse
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...uitably alternate music type publication called Rock Australia Magazine (RAM) and boldly announced to the editor that I was going over to L.A. to see Danny Elfman and would he like an interview. ...

20. Membership
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...cise yourself and your writing and use the 'looking for' section to seek out an agent, publisher, editor or other service Qualify to have any achievements/published work listed in our Writers&...