Official website of Melbourne writer Elsa Neal http://www.hearwritenow.com/ In post-birth bliss my plans were simple ... To read more click heading http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/ http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/2009/rights-conspiracies/ After four years of hand-coding this blog I have finally had a chance to install WordPress and start migrating across. Please note that there is a new RSS feed to this blog. I will continue to update this feed manually for a few weeks, but eventually this will fall away. ... To read more click heading http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/index.htm http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/2009/relaunch-my-fictional-life/ Despite all the planning I do for my books, I don't tend to do much worldbuilding up front. This is one aspect of planning that I leave for the writing process. I'm not sure why I take this approach... To read more click heading http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/index.htm http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/archives/2009/archives2009.htm#Worldbuilding It's amazing how a little dose of reality can put a fictional life on hold... To read more click heading http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/index.htm http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/archives/2009/archives2009.htm#Nibbles It's been a busy couple of months. I put my fiction on hold in order to work on a project for my father-in-law, who turned 70 this month. I'm still not sure how I managed to keep it a semi-surprise, or how I managed to get it done in time, but somehow I converted several dinner time conversations, some sneaky questions, an incomplete six-page memoir, and dozens of photographs into a printed book... To read more click heading http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/index.htm http://www.hearwritenow.com/blog/archives/2009/archives2009.htm#GreyMatter Fortnightly ezine for lateral thinkers, published by hearwritenow http://archives.zinester.com/60790/ http://archives.zinester.com/60790/ http://www.hearwritenow.com/articles/ http://www.hearwritenow.com/articles/index.htm