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24.01.2022 THERE are a few spots left for a free Creative Writing seminar I am delivering at the Women's Life Style Expo at the Lake Kawana Community Centre tomorrow (Saturday), Sportsman's Pde, Lake Kawana on the Sunshine Coast. The Seminar runs from 12.30-1.30pm and you'll need to register beforehand. The Expo itself runs all day and is worth visiting (gold coin admission) with more than 100 stalls. See you there. NOTE: For women participants only.
22.01.2022 i smashed my collarbone to pieces when came off my bike pedalling around lake kawana on fri arvo. typing with one finger, hence no capitals. cheers and god bless to everyone. my communication will be limited for a while.
18.01.2022 ARE YOU READY TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT WRITING THAT BOOK YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO WRITE? It's about getting the story inside your head, Onto the page where it can be read ...... I wrote YOU CAN WRITE A BOOK for nervous, novice writers like you. It has 240 pages and covers everything you need to know about writing your book. It's just $29.95 (incl P&H). Just do an internet bank transfer to: Scott Nicol Amount: $29.95 BSB number: 124-171 Account No: 22287405 Then FB message me your name and postal address and I'll send it to you ASAP. It's that easy. Kind regards Scott Nicol at You Can Write a Book
18.01.2022 WRITING TIP No.5 WHY DO MANY GREAT WRITERS INITIALLY WRITE BY HAND? The great John Steinbeck a journalist-turned-writer and a most competent typist wrote longhand in the first instance using a pencil. He boasted that East of Eden took three hundred pencils to complete. The equally great Truman Capote also wrote longhand before typing his material. Three-time Aussie winner of the Miles Franklin Award Thea Astley wrote 500 words by hand each night sitting up in bed. I l...ike to write while I’m out and about: in cafes; shopping malls; sitting on the beach; waiting in doctor’s waiting rooms places where there is a certain passive energy humming. When I was getting started, I lugged a laptop around to these places with me, but this approach just didn’t work for me. Nothing flowed not for me. Now, with a battered, dog-eared 48-page exercise book and a biro I’m not fussy at the colour, as long as the ink rolls off smoothly the creative juices just seem to flow. Oh, sure, it looks a mess, with arrows shooting off here and there as I add something after the fact, and squeeze it in to its place. No copy and paste here! At first glance it would seem to be counter-productive; double handling to say the least! So why write by hand? It’s difficult to put into words (no pun intended). There's a certain inexplicable rhythm that develops between the brain and a hand-held pen/pencil. But that’s just part of the bonus which is gifted to you when you write by hand. More importantly, I've found something else happens (if you let it) when you later take your longhand material and begin to type at your computer. Whatever you do, don’t just merely type up your longhand material word for word as you hand-wrote it. As you type it up, make sure you take the chance to pause to allow your creativity and imagination to add additional layers of material; layer on extra ideas and description; phrase the dialogue more fully; ask yourself what your characters are thinking and doing. All sorts of material will come to your mind. Don’t ask me how or why. It’s a mystery, but it works. Just let it flow. In fact, I’ve found that I can actually double my output as I type up my longhand passages. CHEERS TO ALL BUDDING WRITERS OUT THERE IN FACEBOOK LAND FROM SCOTT AT YOU CAN WRITE A BOOK. See more
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15.01.2022 THE fascinating biography (240pages) of great Aussie jazz singer/guitarist JOHNNY NICOL: My Life, My Music is back in print. Email author Scott Nicol at [email protected] for purchase details. Limited print run only.
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14.01.2022 CALLING ALL BUDDING (LADY) WRITERS ------ THERE are a few spots left for a free Creative Writing seminar I am delivering at the Women's Life Style Expo at the Lake Kawana Community Centre today (Saturday), Sportsman's Pde, Lake Kawana on the Sunshine Coast. The Seminar runs from 12.30-1.30pm and you'll need to register beforehand (yes it's free). The Expo itself runs all day and is worth visiting (gold coin admission) with more than 100 stalls. See you there. NOTE: For women participants only.
09.01.2022 WRITING TIP No 4: A REGULAR, CONSISTENT, UNINTERRUPTED WRITING SCHEDULE IS ESSENTIAL At one end of the scale, I’ve been talking about setting your imagination free from the prison of work-life conformity and that’s critical. But at the other end, wannabe writers need to develop good habits when it comes to the physical process of writing. Although writers can be struck by flashes of inspiration and imagination at any time of the day or night, that doesn't mean that sett...ing a regular, daily writing schedule shouldn't be the main game. A good basic target is 500-1000 words a session. Many good writers say they write in the morning while their mind is clear and before it becomes affected by the day-to-day nuts-and-bolts issues of living and fulfilling commitments to others. But for many, mornings just simply may not work. Whatever your daily timetable kids, husband (wife), work, other commitments you must schedule at least a couple of hours of non-negotiable, "uninterruptable me time". To maintain a writing schedule takes discipline and you have to be firm and sometimes a little savage about it. But mainly you need to write when no one else is around. But as well as that disciplined, regular writing slot, all writers must be ready to write at anytime, anywhere. So it’s handy some would say essential to have pen and paper with you at all times, preferably a little notebook. Scraps of paper end up going through the wash. Ha ha ha. And if an idea or a writing urge arrives unannounced and you haven’t got said notebook, then beg borrow or steal some paper and get it down (but then transfer it to your notebook). Because flashes of brilliance not written down have the habit of vaporising and disappearing. If you can’t sleep, don’t toss and turn, get up and write at least you won’t be interrupted. The bottom line: Do whatever it takes to get that flash of brilliance down, but a regular writing timeslot is preferable. Cheers from Scott Nicol at You Can Write a Book
07.01.2022 WRITING TIP NO.6 : DOES WRITER'S BLOCK REALLY EXIST? For a hundred years or more, scores books have been written about writer’s block, and still the jury is out. Like climate change, there are the disciples and the sceptics. The disciples see writer’s block as a legitimate disease, while the sceptics say it’s just procrastination, regardless of what brings it on. ... Veteran American crime and mystery writer Elmore Leonard was emphatic. He said: I don’t believe in writer’s block. I don’t know what that is. There are just certain little (plot) areas that I know I’m going (to have to battle) to get through. It’s just a matter of finding a way. Now, I’ve added those four words in brackets, because dear old Elmore was probably a gritty, driven old pro who had that personality type that just pressed on. However, he might well have arrived at that point after one almighty personal battle to overcome procrastination. But when it comes down to solving that literary impasse, I reckon Elmore’s advice is spot on. All of us, with every book we write, will at times have to (fight) to get through to the end. It’s just a matter of finding a way. If you've hit a snag with one part of your plot, then move on to another part of your storyline. We do it with jig-saw puzzles. You know, when the sky gets too hard to get the pieces to fit, we move on to the trees or the buildings. So, do likewise with your story, then come back to the writer's block passage and who knows, it might just begin to make sense again. Cheers from Scott at You Can Write a Book.
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03.01.2022 There are a few spots left for a free Creative Writing seminar I am doing at the Women's Life Style Expo at the Lake Kawana Community Centre tomorrow (Saturday), Sportsman's Pde, Lake Kawana on the Sunshine Coast. The Seminar runs from 12.30-1.30pm and you'll need to register beforehand. The Expo itself runs all day and is worth visiting (gold coin admission) with more than 100 stalls. See you there.
01.01.2022 Thank you to all my FB friends for your best wishes re broken collar bone. Pain is easing somewhat and I'm now able to type normally, albeit in short bursts. Once again thank you every one for your concern. Friends are indeed a blessing. Cheers and God bless.
