Deborah Biancotti is the author of over 30 short stories (her first published story won an Aurealis Award!), five of which appear in her new collection, Bad Power, the most recent volume in Twelfth Planet Press’s fantastic Twelve Planets series. Her first collection, A Book of Endings, was shortlisted for the William L Crawford Award…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: Keep Running
Category: Tuesday Therapy
Tuesday Therapy: Writing as Sudoku
I’m beginning to feel like the fates have aligned so that each week’s therapy session speaks directly to a writing problem I am currently facing. This hasn’t been prearranged — it’s entirely a fluke — but it’s a happy coincidence. I’ve just passed the 1/3 mark of The Familiar and was starting to wonder if I…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: Writing as Sudoku
Tuesday Therapy: Writing with Heart (and Fingers)
It’s that time of year again: when the table of contents for many Year’s Best anthologies are being announced; recommended reading lists are being printed; awards nominations are being bandied around the internetz; shortlists are being compiled and broadcast all over the world in acknowledgement of writing published in 2011. Yes, it’s awards season. Bearing…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: Writing with Heart (and Fingers)
Tuesday Therapy: Letting Ideas Cook
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to have Margo Lanagan as a tutor at Clarion South. Rumours of Margo’s famous “words not to use” list were proven true (the list included things like ‘crystalline’ and ‘iridescent’, and now I can’t see either of these words without thinking of Margo) and her passion for…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: Letting Ideas Cook
Tuesday Therapy: Being the Best Magpie
Jason Fischer is a fellow Adelaidean, harmonica-player, sometimes singer of undead camel songs, zombie aficionado, writer of rollicking stories, and all ’round hell of a nice guy. For this week’s Tuesday Therapy, Jason shares some advice that, really, I just adore. Writers as magpies: what a fantastic (and incredibly accurate) image… Be the Best Magpie…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: Being the Best Magpie
Tuesday Therapy: Whatever Works
After three weeks of working on my novel, I’ve come to realise that all of the writing habits I thought I had were actually temporary. Or cyclical. Or anything other than habitual. So this week’s Tuesday Therapy, which comes from Deborah Kalin, author of Shadow Queen and Shadow Bound (both published by Allen & Unwin) couldn’t…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: Whatever Works
Tuesday Therapy: Never Stop Learning
Alan Baxter is a man who practises what he preaches. He is the author of two dark fantasy novels, RealmShift and MageSign, a stack of short stories, and reams of non-fiction. Yet he hasn’t rested on his laurels. Alan continues to learn and grow as a writer, and to help others do the same: based…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: Never Stop Learning
Tuesday Therapy: Letting Stubborn Stories Breathe
Today’s therapy comes from Theodora Goss, whose writing is simply exquisite. Her first collection, In the Forest of Forgetting (2006) contains some of the most finely crafted fantasy stories you will ever have the pleasure of reading. Think Hope Mirrlees and John Crowley and Virginia Woolf and Delia Sherman — and even then you’re only…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: Letting Stubborn Stories Breathe
Tuesday Therapy: A Word to Remember
A new year has dawned, which has inevitably led to a deluge of resolutions being bandied about the internetz: this year I will write X; I will publish Y; I will conquer the publishing world… Many resolutions focus on the end result, which tends to overlook all the hard work that goes into reaching that…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: A Word to Remember
Tuesday Therapy: The Nagging Call of Ambition
Today’s therapy session is brought to you by Lee Battersby, one of Angry Robot’s Open Door success stories. Context: 980 novels were submitted to Angry Robot’s “Open Door Month” back in March, and out of this lot only 3 authors were chosen for publication… and Lee was one of them. He’s signed on for two…… Continue reading Tuesday Therapy: The Nagging Call of Ambition
Lisa L. Hannett 