To help overcome writer’s block, Ernest Hemingway is said to have reminded himself: “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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In May 1992, the local literary news in Australia was all about Tim Winton and his novel, Cloudstreet. I thought it an omen. We were both in our early 30s and had grown up in Western Australia. He’d just won his second Miles Franklin Award and I was about to have a second crack at being a writer!
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There were old tea chests in a spare room at my grandparents’ house. In them, my younger brother and I found 78 RPM records, Film Fun Annuals and Biggles books that had belonged to our dad. But for the 10-year-old me, the greatest treasure was a mint copy of The Gorilla Hunters by R.M. Ballantyne.
Read MoreThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Maya Angelou
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