After lots of great writing advice for NaNoWriMo from published authors Jack Heath, Margo Lanagan and Lili Wilkinson, we asked Faber Writing Academy alumni Philippa Brandon how she’d compare our six month Writing A Novel course with the one month writing blast of NaNoWriMo.… Read the rest
We’ve learnt about desire at the Faber Writing Academy: that crucial, profoundly human element is at the core of what we’re doing when we write a novel. Guest tutor, Kathryn Heyman, enlightened the Writing a Novel class with her thoughts on the necessity of desire in our work.… Read the rest
It’s a truism that writers come to their work with different methods. We hear of the writer who plots out moment by moment versus the writer who scribbles random lines down for pages and pages with no idea of where they’re going.… Read the rest
It may be over for another year, but if you want to relive it or missed out on all the fun, we’ve collected some of the key sessions from this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival for your enjoyment – featuring entertainment, controversy and some writing tips, here’s your chance to enjoy our top five highlights.… Read the rest
Next week the wonderful writerly madness of Sydney Writers’ Festival kicks off, with events not just across Sydney but spreading also to Parramatta and Katoomba in the Blue Mountains too. And for those further afield, there will be live streaming online of some festival events while Radio National and 702 ABC Sydney will also bring plenty of events to the rest of the country with their coverage.… Read the rest
Kathryn Heyman offers up these tips on how to battle the blank page, defeat distraction and get started writing:
You’ve always wanted to write a novel. Yet every time to sit down to write it, you are distracted by an overwhelming compulsion to clean the oven, phone your mother or feed the dog.… Read the rest
Kathryn Heyman, as one of the directors for our Faber Academy writing courses, introduces our latest anthology of writing from the talented writers on this year’s Writing a Novel courses in Sydney and Melbourne:
In Bird by Bird the American writer Anne Lamott describes attempting to give an inspirational speech to a group of aspiring writers.… Read the rest
