by Kathryn | 19 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Four
The word “muse” comes from Greek mythology where in the pantheon of gods there were nine goddesses, the Muses, each inspiring a particular area of thought: Thalia for comedy, Melpomene, for tragedy, Terpsichore for dance, Calliope for epic poetry and so on. (“And so...
by Kathryn | 18 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Three
When I was a child, most Sunday nights – the best ones – were heralded by the opening notes to When You Wish Upon a Star. That music – and the image of the cartoon Tinkerbell shooting across the screen – was a signal for a Sunday evening ritual. Pyjamas. Cushions. The...
by Kathryn | 17 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Three
How are you getting on with the daily prompts? Are you finding your way to your creative instinct? Are words arriving on the page? As always, be kind to yourself. I keep thinking about an interview Tim Winton did with the great Andrew Denton years ago in which he...
by Kathryn | 16 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Three
Several years ago, I taught a group of novelists who were struggling a little with that old ‘I can’t seem to get it written’ problem. Listening to them, it became apparent that each time they failed to hit their ‘target’ (usually a word count), they panicked and...
by Kathryn | 15 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Three
I was at a dinner a year or two ago when the man sitting beside me asked, “What made you a writer?” Barely pausing to swallow my soup, I began my origin story, the very one I’ve told at many writers’ festivals or in interviews, over many years. It’s the story in which...
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