SET against the colourful backdrop of the North Shore, artist Jo Josephsen captured in images the humour and drama of a story told by her mother. Josephsen, of Killara, relished working as part of the mother-daughter team bringing the area to life in The Amazing Adventures of Claude and Albert. Author Patricia Woolfrey – Josephsen’s [...]
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By Michelle: When you find yourself struggling with writer’s block, try one of these writing prompts. The goal is to jump-start your writing engine so that you can begin writing your book or story. Remember to favor the concrete over the abstract, and to let your mind go where it may. Choose one a day, [...]
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The vocabulary of ethnicity identity is fraught with peril. It is unfortunate that humans must at times distinguish between various subgroups, but it’s best to keep up-to-date on which descriptions are considered valid or acceptable among those belonging to those populations. Here’s a guide: 1. African A person of African descent. Some people so described [...]
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Today I offer the second in an occasional series of articles aimed at helping you overcome writers block. This involves personal memories and as such will be different for each of us. Do you have what I call a memory box? Photographs of the children when they were growing up, a marriage photograph, perhaps a [...]
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I stumbled across this competition quite by accident but thought to myself its novel and while the money may not be that big, then neither is the entry fee and well it seems sort of fun Here’s what you have to do. On the 1st of every month the contest promoters ‘Strictly Shakespeare,’ will leave [...]
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