Day: February 2, 2016

Memoir writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Don Elgin has One Foot on the Podium

If there was ever an author that DIDN’T need a leg up, it would be athlete, motivational speaker and amputee Don Elgin. His story of disabled boy turned elite athlete has been brought to the page through his memoir, One Foot on the Podium. And we recently asked him all

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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Writing Podcast Episode 94 Meet slayer of weasel words Don Watson, author of ‘Worst Words: A compendium of contemporary cant, gibberish and jargon

In Episode 94 of So you want to be a writer: Go inside the world of things that look like books but aren’t, writing in a foreign language, a re-usable notebook, how to avoid distractions from writing, and meet slayer of weasel words Don Watson. Also: an app that distills non-fiction works

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