Claire Belberg

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Hi! I write novels, short stories and poems. My first novel, The Golden Hour, was released in June 2017, a cross-genre novel that I think of as speculative realism heading towards the literary end of the spectrum. Early in 2022 Stone Table Books released my new YA novel about a connection between brothers across a time barrier where love must reach beyond memory. It's called Evernow.

My poetry is usually around nature themes, and I live in a wonderland called the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, where koalas, possums and colourful birds are resident, and kangaroos and echidnas not uncommon. We also have poisonous snakes and redback spiders...

I have published poetry and short stories in several anthologies. I blog occasionally at The Charac
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Claire Belberg I would go to Middle Earth and live at Rivendell. I could really be inspired to write there!
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A real character

Why do we call people in novels ‘characters’?

We use the word for many things: to refer to someone whose personality is unusual; to mean something akin to inner strength; to mean something like essential personality; and for book people. We even use it to describe human-built environments such as buildings or towns.

I think of character firstly as a sort of unique essence of a person. Maybe it’s th

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Stephen R. Lawhead
“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”
Stephen R. Lawhead, Merlin

Tim Winton
“Writing a book is a bit like surfing," he said. "Most of the time you're waiting. And it's quite pleasant, sitting in the water waiting. But you are expecting that the result of a storm over the horizon, in another time zone, usually, days old, will radiate out in the form of waves. And eventually, when they show up, you turn around and ride that energy to the shore. It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace. As a writer, you roll up to the desk every day, and then you sit there, waiting, in the hope that something will come over the horizon. And then you turn around and ride it, in the form of a story.”
Tim Winton

August Wilson
“You die how you live.”
August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean

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