The Happiness Panel @OZComic-Con #creative #happiness

Panels are extraordinary opportunities to explore ideas with people who are currently working in the industry. It’s particularly compelling when group panels at conventions of this kind are presented and include panel members who are involved in various types of professions in the industry.  The panels I like to create, tend to add another artist […]

Experience inspires enrichment. Enrichment produces the human element #writingrealcharacters

I’ve always been a person who believes in experiencing life. I’ve done this for as long as I can remember. If I could only tell you all of the experiences I’ve had, some better than others, I would. But the stories would take years to tell. Each one was experienced in real moments of my […]

When Cancer Comes Knocking Writers Write. #DepthofMeaning

I wasn’t sure how to begin this. With most stories, we writers often agonise over our first sentence.  The events that lead…  When I first heard…  My heart was heavy… Well, here we go. Yesterday the word cancer was not rooted in my world quite as deeply as it is today. Because yesterday I didn’t […]

Another year goes by! 2018 will be great. #GreatBeginnings #PositiveThoughts

I’ve had a great year! I’m very grateful to have experienced small personal progress artistically with my first play performed as a play reading with actors under the professional guidance of a director, then I had another poem published in an art and literature journal and I was lucky  to see one of my microfiction […]

First Mental Health Discussion @ OZ Comic-Con #ProgressiveSteps

When I first made the decision to submit a proposal to Oz Comic-Con I wasn’t sure how it would go. I wasn’t sure 1) if the Con coordinators would even consider including the subject of mental health and wellbeing or 2) if anyone would turn up for it. Panel Subject An artist’s guide to mental […]

Women who dare to be bold and brave #International #WomensDay #CreativeLife

Once we would find storytellers sitting under a tree with pen and paper, digging through the story scrabble of consequences, conflicts and conquests. Most of those storytellers were men back in those old-timer days. It’s true to say that some of my most beloved stories were written by men and some of my favourite poetry […]