Day: August 18, 2015

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Word lovers
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

11 words you can stop misspelling

The modern age has given us amazing tools like spell check, but that’s a little like having an excellent team of paramedics always waiting at the base of the cliff (surely a dubious use of medical resources?). What happens if you can’t use ‘spell check’? Wouldn’t you rather not leap

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Author Nicole Hayes shares her cafe obsession…

In a recent episode of our weekly podcast So you want to be a writer, Valerie chatted with author Nicole Hayes. Among the various questions were three we thought we’d share with you. (To listen to the interview in full, go here.) Why she chooses to write about teenagers in her books:

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