Writers Connect! Newsletter 38 Welcome to the Writers Connect! newsletter. Writing is a human experience. It’s about connection with everyone and everything around us. We understand you’re busy. So the newsletter has just four or five main items of content. A brief but satisfying read. In this issue: Write Here, Right Now: Writing Competitions Word […]
Famous Authors Series – Elif Shafak
26 January 2021 by Leave a Comment
Many years ago, I read The Forty Rules of Love by the author of today’s post ‘Famous Authors Series – Elif Shafak’. Elif Shafak (born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British writer. Her surname is an anglicised version of the Turkish (Şafak). Cultural diversity coloured Elif’s childhood and teenage years. She was born in Strasbourg to Turkish parents, returned […]
Famous Authors Series – Janet Frame
19 January 2021 by Leave a Comment
Escaping by a whisker a life that would have been curbed by a drastic psychiatric intervention is one experience that defines the subject of today’s post ‘Famous Authors Series – Janet Frame’. Janet Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was born in the South Island city of Dunedin in New Zealand. With her […]
Setting Yourself Up For Writing Success
12 January 2021 by Leave a Comment
At the start of a fresh new year, it is appropriate to start with a post about setting yourself up for writing success for the year ahead. Tips for being a productive writer In this post, I give you tips from my Book Coaching Program ‘Get Your Book to the Finish Line’. Whatever your writing […]
Famous Authors Series – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16 December 2020 by Leave a Comment
‘Famous Authors Series – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’ is our fourth post profiling famous authors. I wonder if Sir Arthur (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) knew that his character Sherlock Holmes, created in 1887, would remain popular into the 21st century. Upon the success of his character, he co-wrote the stage play Sherlock […]
Famous Authors Series – Isabel Allende
3 December 2020 by Leave a Comment
‘Famous Authors Series – Isabel Allende’ is our third post profiling famous authors. Isabel Allende, the Chilean-American writer born in 1942, wrote her first novel The House of the Spirits (1982) when she was almost 40. As towering a literary figure as she is, physically she is tiny, just 5ft. She is a multi-award-winning author, […]
Famous Authors Series – Roald Dahl
18 November 2020 by Leave a Comment
‘Famous Authors Series – Roald Dahl’ is our second post profiling famous authors. Best known for his hugely popular children’s books, Roald Dahl was a British author who was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1916 to immigrant Norwegian parents. He died in Oxford, England in 1990. The themes of his children’s books are usually unsentimental […]
Famous Authors Series – Katherine Mansfield
4 November 2020 by Leave a Comment
This is the beginning of a series of posts about the lives of famous authors. Just how ‘regular’ these turn out to be will depend on other content I have to post, but let’s kick off today with the Famous Authors Series – Katherine Mansfield. Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand author who lived only […]
Clichés, Dead Metaphors and some Alternatives
21 October 2020 by Leave a Comment
In a recent blog, we looked at clichés and overused (or dead) metaphors and their origins (see https://editors4you.com.au/cliches-and-overused-metaphors/). In this blog we look at the same topic, but with a twist – clichés, dead metaphors and some alternatives. As mentioned in the above blog, clichés and overused metaphors can negatively affect the impact of your […]
How Can Writer Coaching Help Me?
7 October 2020 by Leave a Comment
Whether or not you have read the previous blogs on writer coaching (see links at end), you may still be asking yourself, how can writer coaching help me personally? I thought it would be helpful to tell you some stories (anonymously, of course) about several clients I’ve worked with, their reason for wanting coaching, and […]