For my job, I meet a lot of people involved with local charities and community organisations. Some may say this is just work – part of the job – but I genuinely love meeting these people. Continue reading “Salty: Volunteers at Vision Australia, Belmont”
Author: Anna Kosmanovski
After years of freelance writing and working in magazines I am now writing fiction and short stories. I'm a writer on a journey to becoming a published author. My genres are historical fiction for adults, YA and MG girls' stories, short stories and whatever else words come to me and ask to be written!
King Tut … what about him? I mean, is this blog even relevant to him . . ??
King Tut. That’s what we all call him, anyway. Like we know him – or knew him. Is a bit like how we call famous people by their first name? Continue reading “King Tut … what about him? I mean, is this blog even relevant to him . . ??”
An Autumn Day Dallied in Daylesford …
Is this going to be a cheesy blog post going on about the beauty of Autumn? Is this going to be all flowery descriptions (“sunburnt leaves,” “crunchy red” “weak sunlight streaming on lemon, orange and cranberry coloured leaves?”) – something akin to a travel brochure for no particular thing, only called “Autumn?” Continue reading “An Autumn Day Dallied in Daylesford …”
If you write, it’s right to write. Right?!
Daydream believer: Honour your creative gifts. (Do it: that’s the essence of this verbose and predictable ramble.) Continue reading “If you write, it’s right to write. Right?!”
Change our attitudes, change the world
Homelessness in Geelong: looking beyond what you see. Continue reading “Change our attitudes, change the world”
The dangling conversation …
When you’re smiling. Oh when you’re smiling. The whooooooole world smiles with you. (Sing it Louie!) Oh but when you’re … tired, you bring on the yawns. You bring on the yawns.
Did you just sing those words in your head to Louis Armstrong’s famous song, ‘When you’re smiling?’ It would be cool if you did because I just did, and that’s the cool thing about writing – it’s a way of communicating but it’s like this secret way.
Secret because the author and reader have an explicit relationship (it’s definitive. Like clockwork.) One writes, the other reads. Or vice versa. Continue reading “The dangling conversation …”
The sport of writing
Writers.They’re funny types. Weird.
By this, obviously I am including myself.
Think about it… if there was an athlete training for a triathlon or a marathon or some serious, inevitable event, what would they be doing?
Training.
Training. Working with a coach, being disciplined, off to the pool at 5.30am, only eating roast potatoes on a Sunday, that sort of thing. Continue reading “The sport of writing”
Mummies-in-waiting: Ancient Egyptian beliefs
What makes the subject of history so compelling is the sense of unity – and also likeness – between the past and the present. The ‘humanness’ that provides a channel of similarity between people who live in 2011 and those who lived in 1786 or 1044 or even 2000 B.C. Continue reading “Mummies-in-waiting: Ancient Egyptian beliefs”
Anna Kosmanovski 