Maria Arena

Here is a question: should a writer create and delve into the lives of characters outside their gendered, sexual, racial, and/or cultural...

In my last post, I wrote about one way we can increase our chances of avoiding rejection; through clear formatting that meets the...

Rejection – there’s no escaping it – is horrid part of the writer’s life. But there are practical steps we can take to, at a minimum,...

Let’s face an ugly truth – we writers are not unique. Indeed, every person on the planet is a storyteller. From the day we learnt to...

Here is a question: for whom do you write? If you’re like Sonya Hartnett – “…I write only for me, and for the few people I hope to...

Theme is a tricky beast. Elusive, yet all pervading; hidden, yet evident in every aspect of a tale, it is the element that makes story...