MSing About

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.

Historical fiction is a fun genre. Move over Gone with the Wind, Tale of Two Cities and Forrest Gump because Write Now is writing Her Name Was Lola (She Was a Showgirl). It is the true story of Lola Montez, an exotic dancer on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, served up with extra spice!

With Katrina out of town, Ian goes solo today and looks at writing a birthday speech for someone else and a birthday wake for himself. 

Having made short films for the Focus on Ability short film festival in 2021, 2022 and 2023, Katrina and Ian decide to make another for the 2024 competition. In this podcast they look at the restrictions and requirements that go into making a film of less that five minutes duration.

In this Write Now podcast, Katrina and Ian look at what you should write about and the answer is simple, write about what you know and/or what you are passionate about. Sure, J.K. Rowling may not know everything about wizardry and magic but she knows about people, human nature and conflict - she is just throwing wild imagination at what she knows. You don't have to be a serial killer to write about serial killing... you do, however, have to know the crime genre and then throw imagination at it.