At yesterday's monthly meeting of my writers' group I offered a few hundred words from the manuscript I am still slaving over. I had my heroine walking up the gangplank of a sailing ship in 1885. The problem with using that word is it conjures up pirates in the reader's imagination. Did I have it … Continue reading His gilder-fluke broke on the flunker-flopper
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Loving in the Shadow of Tito – a “commended” short essay
Much excitement last week at the Gala Event of the Society Women Writers NSW at which numerous competition winners were announced. Included in these were the Members' Book Awards and the National Writing Competition (short stories and poems). I had entered a nonfiction essay to be supportive. Most of my free time is spent on … Continue reading Loving in the Shadow of Tito – a “commended” short essay
A Ramble about Reading
It is about 5pm on the first Sunday in March as I write, and outside my window steady rain is falling in a sheet that obscures the view. It's been raining for about two weeks now. Much of the coast of lower Queensland and New South Wales is caught in an east coast low that … Continue reading A Ramble about Reading
GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree 