In some ways, I’m picking the worst month to do a creative challenge. I’ll be busy conducting workshops, putting together another for an event that (for the moment) has to be kept hush-hush, keeping kids entertained during school holidays and a few other things besides those. But I was thinking back over the fun I…
Boy, Friday rolls around quickly! Another week, more things to celebrate! Let’s get started. So this happened: *whispers* I think I’ve finished the draft. #manuscript — Karen Andrews (@KarenAndrewsAU) June 18, 2015 There’s still things I need to insert and change, and no doubt many darlings will be killed along the way, but the…
Every Friday during school term, Riley sits down to eat his breakfast and you can almost guarantee that while he’s eating will say at least once, “Friday! It’s almost the weekend! I love Fridays.” In that same celebratory spirit, I thought I would start up a regular ‘Friday Celebrations’ series, showcasing the sorts of links,…
“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.” Marc Jacobs I had a legendary reputation for messiness in my late teens and early twenties while living in share houses. I never really kept a lot of ‘stuff’ – except for books – but I…
I think it’s fair to say that many writers and workers in the arts industry have been feeling pretty deflated since the Australian Government announced its budget last week, revealing huge cuts that are going to take effect. It’s understandable; I get it. But one of the things I have always loved about the artistic community is…
I had the pleasure of talking to Summer Land last week via Skype about writing and marketing your book once it has been published – a sometimes tricky topic but, as I mention in the video, Summer does it very well. Further details below. Topics Discussed – How Summer pitched the idea of…
Your bedroom floor is a battlefield of board game figurines in a series of poses from victorious to defeated. Littered nearby, cascading down beside the bed, are pages of writing fragments blueprints and designs that will one day “change the world”. But it already is changed. Everyday. Those “I am” and “I want” statements…
Let me first declare that I’m new to writing erasure poetry. I have friends who do it – very well – and I’ve always wanted to give it a try. Well, last month I did, results below, but first let me explain a bit more about erasure poetry. Here’s a nice summary from Wikipedia: Erasure is a…
It’s a thrill to be able to show you today a talk I had recently with Valerie Khoo and her business book Power Stories: The 8 Stories You Must Tell to Build an Epic Business. The longer I’ve been writing and blogging the more I’ve come to value the various ways that people can…
