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It’s six in the morning and I’m wide awake. As tired as my body is, my mind is already running in circles. It’s a writer’s mind whatever else might be ...
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My husband walked into the lounge yesterday, looked around and said, with a sigh, "We have a lot of books." "Yes," I said, "Isn't it wonderful? We can pick them ...
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Music has always been a huge part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are listening to Mozart with my grandfather or wiggling away to Elvis with my parents ...
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This week, we have a very special feature - one of the stories from "Charon's Song", a collection of stories by the writers of Skolion. Here follows  "Beans", by Laurie ...
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This is a guest post by South African author and counselling psychologist, Joanne Macgregor. Her books span ages and genres, and you can find out all about them here.  Her ...
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If you’re thinking of writing a novel, by now I’m sure you’ll also have heard about the dreaded editing process that’s sure to follow, (hopefully) at the hands of a ...
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In my previous article, “Where Visual Art and Creative Writing Meet” the projects I described were equally balanced between visual art and writing. Some of the stories came out of ...
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We've received some questions about exactly how the Skolion process works. So strap in for this tour of how Yolandie Horak's A Study of Ash & Smoke was made 1 ...
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In mid-2018, I was having a rough time and I got a bit depressed. It wasn’t the first time I’d experienced depression and it wouldn’t be the last. Like all ...
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Although ‘talking books’ have been around in some form or another since the days of the phonograph they only became easily accessible with the invention of portable listening devices such ...
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