The other day, while I wandered past the lily pond, a poem began to write itself in my mind. I hurried home, aware that it would vanish...

A prose poem - a reflection between collecting and polishing rocks, and the work of spirituality.

It’s early July and I’m back in Santa Barbara, my second home.

At its best, poetry is the music of the soul, singing the songlines of our life’s trajectory and articulating its yearnings

The weather in Santa Barbara is sunny and warm, and I have written my 1000 words for the day. I am sitting on the sun lounge beneath the...

We sat drinking tea on the sandstone terrace of a property just outside Berrima in the southern Highlands south of Sydney. It was one of...

This morning I wandered by the ocean, marveling at the beauty of stone and shell, seaweed and sand. I found a pebble which seemed to be...

That feeling you get when … you’ve finished writing the final chapter of your book! At last, I’ve completed the trilogy. Well, that’s to...

It will surprise no-one who knows me that I was loquacious from a very early age. I began to speak fluently from the age of two, and thus...

One of the joys of my life consists of combining various strands of creativity to create a video presentation. On this occasion, I had...

On a warm autumn day in October 2017, I gazed from the window of the plane as islands of the Cyclades drifted far below, their peaks...

To mark the passing of the year and the new beginning, I have written and recorded a poem: 'Noumenon' . It speaks of the single,...

The past week was wet and miserable: perfect writing weather! But today the sun emerged, and I walked along the beach, splashing in the...

Lily pond lagoon, images and sound

In recent months, I have been coaching a number of writers who are producing their first books. It's rewarding work, especially when we...

A landscape with a mountain range, Of cloudy sky and towering trees Reflected in a lake of pearl: A world within a cockle shell

In this, the final episode, I discuss the writer's voice – the distinctive form of expression which makes a writer's work unique to the...

Having just returned from ten days on the Coffs coast and in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, I’m now reflecting on the...

What brings your work to life is the capacity to create an atmosphere in which you can lose yourself: the sort of atmosphere that makes...

Where do ideas come from? How do we develop them? Do characters shape plot, or does the plot shape the character? How do we make dialogue...