Selma In The City

Writer. Teacher, Misfit. Sydney, Australia

Category: Writing

Fiction, prose, writing tips.

  • SHORT STORY: for my friend, Alice. Mavis was a survivor, everybody said so. It was a good thing. It meant she could never go back, because surviving meant you always moved forward. She comforted herself with that thought. She was a wayfarer on the periphery of things now.  Walking, always walking, trying to find a…

  • This quote from Janet Frame’s “An Angel At My Table” inspires me a lot. Writing a novel is a multi-faceted experience. Putting pen to paper is the very least of it. There’s a lot of legwork that takes place in your mind. You’re creating a story and characters that exist in your imagination and trying…