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This week's podcast is about two well-known people who started as colleagues and became friends, Noeline Brown and Kev Golsby... and one venture that almost went very pear-shaped.

Good friends you make on your life journey say a lot about the person you are and they, in turn, contribute to the fabric of your character. This podcast is mainly about a friend I have had for 58 years and the chapter is titled, The Day I Met the Swami.

This podcast tip for writing a memoir chapter is to choose one day in the year that has had an impact on you. It could be Christmas, Valentine's Day, Australia Day or a birthday. My chapter is titled The Day They Call Anzac.

Memoirs should reflect life and, as such, there can be recounting of events that were sad or traumatic. This week’s podcast - The Day My Father Died.

My memoir year in this podcast is 1969. It was the year of Woodstock and Abbey Road, the year Billy Graham converted me to Christianity for a week, the year man landed on the moon, the year I walked the Kokoda Trail and the year my boarding school housemaster disciplined and humiliated me in front of the whole house.

An easy chapter to write in a memoir is looking at your ancestors and how their life journeys led to your own arrival on the planet. In this podcast, some tips and a couple of examples. 

When I was growing up, my mother often said that writers and artists have more mealtimes than meals and that I should aim to get a real job. I became a writer and an artist after sampling a few 'real' jobs en route. This podcast looks at three of those ventures... as a chef in a bistro, as a painter in butcher shops and as a public servant. Sometimes what you did and how you did it says...

A brush with fame (or in this case, infamy) leads to encounters with other famous people and a bag of mixed lollies.

This week’s podcast is the first chapter in my memoir, The Day I Defied Gravity. I broke four wrists in primary school. This flash of stupidity accounted for two of them. Did you do something stupid in your youth?

The memoir tip in this Write Now podcast is on how to include an event that was special to you growing up.

This memoir chapter introduces a wonderful woman who lived to 101 with the motto, 'life is too short for tepid food or tepid people'.

This week’s podcast is solo with another tip on how to write a memoir and visiting a chapter in Ian's memoir that uses a simple device to look at about ten incidents in his journey in about ten minutes. 

The Write Now podcast this week has a tip for writing a memoir – arguably one of the easiest writing genres to take on because you know the main character pretty well and it doesn’t have to be an extraordinary life to create an entertaining read! 

Not all of us get mentioned in a book, a movie, or a TV show but we all get more than a mention at our own funeral... and chances are that you will be asked to write, deliver or assist in preparing a eulogy for a family member or friend. 

This week, Katrina and Ian catch up to shoot the breeze about putting together a documentary.

It is voting time for the 2024 Focus on Ability Short Film Festival and this podcast is about this year's open film entry, No Strings Attached and the documentary entry, My MS Story. There is also an audio version of the 2021 short film that won the Best Actor Award.

Producing podcasts with advice and tips on how to write has led to Ian writing about topics he never thought he would and today he chats with Katrina about a current non-fiction project about Indigenous Australians called They're Not a Weird Mob.

This podcast looks at the amazing yet frightening world of AI and its threat to human creativity. 

In this Write Now podcast Ian flies solo and talks about arguably the easiest writing genre to get published, plays.

A blog these days can be print, audio or video and people make money out of writing blogs for others or for themselves. In this podcast, a few tips on how to blog and what to blog about.

Write Now Podcast. Songwriting. Katrina and Ian both have written songs. Ian has co-written seven albums. Where do those lyric ideas come from?

Write Now Podcast. Heard of a stream of consciousness? It can be a great way to get writing.

Write Now. Ian was recently invited to present a workshop on writing comedy at an author’s expo called Word Fest and in this week’s podcast Katrina and Ian chat about that and what makes people laugh.

This Write Now podcast is a chat about developing characters.

This podcast is about how to write non-fiction and make it engaging and entertaining.