The Craft of Writing
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Anne Skyvington teaches the skills and the craft of creative writing, both in groups convened by her and through online blogging. She is a writer of prose fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry.
The Craft of Writing
3M ago
W. H. Auden: Stop the Clocks Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come. For the complete poem, go to the following site: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159365/twelve-songs-ix * Note the melodic iambic pentameter and internal rhyme Lord […]
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The Craft of Writing
6M ago
In the Sutherland Shire 32 kilometres south of Sydney is a hilly tree-rich suburb on the edge of the National Park with an indigenous ring to it: Yarrawarrah. It lies next to Engadine with Heathcote and Waterfall further to the south. It takes one hour by train to get there (Engadine Station) or a bit […]
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The Craft of Writing
6M ago
Saturday 14 October, 2023 The date will be forever etched in my mind, like that of my father’s death, two days before this date back in 1978. He was the…
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The Craft of Writing
6M ago
The Parable of the Twins I came across this parable at the time my daughter was about to give birth to her first son and was enchanted by it. I…
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The Craft of Writing
6M ago
In 2008 I attended a Convention in Singapore for followers of the New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism, introduced to the West by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1977. He now resides…
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The Craft of Writing
6M ago
What is Meditation? “It’s what happy and successful people do,” I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to do it. The Dalai Lama and other…
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The Craft of Writing
6M ago
The Golden Ratio Many buildings and artworks reflect the Golden Ratio: the Parthenon in Greece, and many other classical buildings in Europe. But it is not really known if it…
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The Craft of Writing
6M ago
Several years ago, a young Englishwoman donned a backpack, set out for Australia and rented premises in Bondi; she’d brought the New Kadampa Tradition to Sydney from the United Kingdom.…
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The Craft of Writing
8M ago
Jeannie is one of these inch worm types. One toe in, one toe back. The cold has always been alien. From birth, really. Even today, she shivers with the water…
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The Craft of Writing
8M ago
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, —…
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