Get a Library Card: My Rules for Writing

Earlier this year I had the great pleasure of being a guest of the 2014 Emerging Writers' Festival in Melbourne. As one of thefive EWF ambassadors(the others being the superb Benjamin Law, Krissy Kneen, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Felix Nobis), I appeared onseveral panels duringthe National Writers' Conference. The first panelwas called 'The 5 x 5 Rules of Writing', wherethe other ambassadors and I each shared the writing advice we wish we had known when we started out.

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