Tauranga Writers held an extra event on Sunday 17 September 2017, 10am at The Raft Café boardroom for visiting American novelist Mark H Wandrey. Mark was accompanied by his wife, Joy, between them they formed a dynamic speaking pair. The two hours with them and a [...]
Anne Cleary Not About Time When I look back to the period of time during which I wrote my two novels, I often wonder how I managed it. I was busy – far busier than I am now – home-schooling my two children. Yet [...]
I’ve been writing for years and clogging up my laptop memory with short stories and novels. When I joined Tauranga Writers, some of them began to pop up their heads and get published. I like to write for children and include the environment in [...]
In April 2017, I attended the international Horror Writers Association’s second annual StokerCon conference, a convention bringing together creatives and consumers of the horror genre: writers, screenwriters, illustrators, game designers, graphic artists, podcasters, voice talent and filmmakers. Held, on this occasion, on Long Beach’s [...]
This story begins during my childhood in the Feltham Children's Home at Otaki Beach. On Boxing Day morning Aunty Maud, who was Miss Feltham's main helper, asked me to collect chicken scraps from the Devantier's beach bach. “They're expecting you,” she said. “And be [...]
What a fantastic week of elite workshops we had last week, ranging from screenwriting, writing for children, history, plays and fiction. Wow! Big thanks to president Jenny Argante who's been so focused in making this year memorable. The 21st of June was 50 years to the [...]
June 10 is fast approaching for our TW training of Scrivener with Angela Curtis. I've heard some good things about this design tool, how it can make sense of a manuscript. I get lost once it passes 10,000 words. Where did I write that, where can [...]
June 10 is fast approaching for our TW training of Scrivener with Angela Curtis. I've heard some good things about this design tool, how it can make sense of a manuscript. I get lost once it passes 10,000 words. Where did I write that, where can [...]
I’ve been writing since the eighties, when in a space of ‘nothing to do’, I began Mills and Boon. After chapter 3, it became my own story, and because it didn’t properly follow the strict guidelines, was not accepted. However, parts of it were adapted into a [...]
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