Trust the reader
Faber Academy Alumni Renee McBryde discusses how she came to be a writer, and how the challenge of writing her first book – a confronting and moving memoir – was aided greatly by Patti Miller’s True Stories course. … Read the rest
Coming out as a writer
Faber Writing Academy alumni Rob McDonald shares his second coming out story, and discusses finding his identity as a writer.
The Dunedin Botanic Gardens are beautiful. I sit side by side with my Dad in the café whose roof is a giant faded concrete sun umbrella.… Read the rest
Prospecting for Gold at Faber Writing Academy
Narelle Hill, one of our Faber Writing Academy students, recently completed our Writing a Novel course in Melbourne, and explains the changes to her writing while undertaking the course.
A lot of people, including me, want to be published authors.… Read the rest
Your Time Starts Now… Writing a Novel with Faber Writing Academy
Want to know what it’s like doing our Faber Writing Academy Writing a Novel course? Journalist Diana Jenkins shares her experiences of the course so far, what she’s learnt from our tutors, and how it’s helping progress her novel (and also comments on course catering & our eating habits!).… Read the rest
What I learned from Editors & Authors at Faber Writing Academy
Karen Comer, a recent student on our Faber Writing Academy workshop Revise, Revise, Revise… shares her experiences from the course, what she took away, and how she’s learning the meaning of the word tenacity. … Read the rest
Questions, Motives, Goals and Torture: Why I Keep Writing
Our Faber Writing Academy scholarship winner Ella Lamb shares her thoughts on why she keeps writing, and the many other questions that authors must answer on a regular basis.
There seems to be an awful lot of questions aspiring authors must answer: what is your story about?… Read the rest
I now believe I will get there – Writing a Novel with Faber Writing Academy
Our Faber Writing Academy Scholarship winner Kelli Hawkins shares what she learned from the Writing a Novel course, and how it has given her belief in her writing.
Writing a novel is such a big task.… Read the rest
A rush of unusual common sense – Debra Jopson on learning to write fiction
Much like our recent post on Rewriting the Rules, Debra Jopson explains how she went from writing journalism for a living to writing fiction, and how our Faber Writing Academy course helped her learn to live in a fictional world.… Read the rest
Rewriting the Rules
Alexandra Joel, one of many successful alumini of Patti Miller’s Writing True Stories courses, has just published her memoir Rosetta, and writes about how a Faber Writing Academy course helped shape her writing from a journalism background and break down the writing rules she’d known.… Read the rest
On learning to write, and how to love it
Pip Smith, 2015 scholarship winner for our Faber Writing Academy Writing a Novel course in Sydney shares what she learned during the course:
Sometimes it feels as if my novel-writing process grinds forward with the speed of shifting tectonic plates.… Read the rest