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Reading for Writing Part 2

President Leife concludes her thoughts on why she reads what she reads. See Part 1 here. In my last post, I talked about how being a writer has limited my capacity as a reader. But I don’t want to give the impression that I don’t read any more. Far from it. [...]

2019-08-01T07:57:47+10:0028th February, 2015|Tags: , |

Special general meeting – 18 March 2015

The next General Meeting, on 18 March, will be a Special General Meeting. At the AGM in October 2014, the Committee asked the membership to vote on a proposal to amend the rules to allow the CSFG to be able confer life memberships. The membership voted to approve the proposal [...]

2019-07-06T17:55:26+10:0025th February, 2015|Tags: |

Reading for Writing Part 1

President Leife Shallcross kicks off the 2015 discussions with some musing on some CSFG'ers recent encounter with a literary hero and how reading is a vital ingredient of writing. This essay is crossposted from Leife's website. I’ve had quite a literary week. On Monday I went to see the entertaining [...]

2019-12-18T06:56:04+11:0024th February, 2015|Tags: , , |

First meeting of 2015 next Wednesday!

Did you guys even realise it was 2015 already? FEBRUARY 2015. That’s only 320 days away from 2016.  AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SO FAR?!?!  If the answer is ‘Not as much as I’d like’, then our February meeting is for you.  (If the answer isn’t that, you should still [...]

2019-07-06T17:55:27+10:0012th February, 2015|Tags: |

CSFG Member News (December 2014)

It's the end of the year, and CSFG is on hiatus until early February, but that doesn't mean our members aren't busy beavering away at their craft. Several CSFG members have reported exciting publication news: Novels Justin Woolley's first novel A Town Called Dust is out now from Momentum. Zena [...]

2019-07-06T21:58:15+10:0028th December, 2014|Tags: , , |

Writing versus storytelling

Guest post by Ian McHugh As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, lots of people (ie, jealous writers) love to disparage novelists like J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer for the quality of their writing. It’s clunky, repetitive, boring, grammatically questionable and blah. At the same time, they love to idolise writers who possess a [...]

2019-08-01T07:57:43+10:0015th December, 2014|Tags: , |

Helsinki Bus Station Theory for writers

Guest post by Ian McHugh Helsinki Bus Station Theory is the creation of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, employed as a metaphor for the career of a photographer. It goes like this: Helsinki Bus Station has a number of platforms and a number of different bus routes start from each platform. All the [...]

2019-06-26T08:36:47+10:0025th November, 2014|Tags: , |

2014 Awards Season – Aurealis Awards and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror

Aurealis Awards Nominations for the annual Aurealis Awards for Australian speculative fiction are open. Any work of speculative fiction written by an Australian citizen or permanent resident and published for the first time between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2014 is eligible to be entered. The conditions of entry are here. [...]

2019-07-06T21:58:35+10:0018th November, 2014|Tags: , , |

How to Handle End of Novel Blues

Guest post by Zena Shapter Let’s say you’ve been working on a novel for a while – maybe a year or two, fitting it inbetween work, life and kids. Now you’re approaching its end… you’re past the novel’s climax and you’re starting to wind everything up… You should feel elated. Yay [...]

2014-11-15T04:50:04+11:0015th November, 2014|Tags: , |
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