Memoir - Merry Christmas!
My Christmas has certainly changed since I was a kid. Has yours? Christmas memories can easily find their way into a memoir.
Dec 21, 2024•12 min
MSing About
Ian is an award-winning comedy writer with MS and in the current series, Almost a Radio Show, he teams up with his singer/comedian mate, Dave Prior, for a weekly half-hour of great music, trivia, fun factoids and spontaneous silliness.
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Memoir - Back to Nature
Sometimes nature can serve up a lifetime of memories in just a few seconds, minutes or hours and there's a place in a memoir for such events... could be a cyclone, an eathquake, a green flash, an eclipse or a turtle giving birth.
Dec 14, 2024•12 min
Memoir - Flights of Fancy
This week’s memoir podcast is titled Flights of Fancy because it is mainly about crossing paths with two aviation adventurers, Bob Gannon and Dick Smith.
Dec 07, 2024•11 min
Memoir - A Few Famous Failures
This week’s memoir podcast is titled A Few Famous Failures… three joint ventures I shared with an actor mate, Shane Withington.
Nov 30, 2024•11 min
Memoir - The Day the Hitmen Came
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.
Nov 23, 2024•12 min
Memoir - Meet the Swami
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.
Nov 16, 2024•11 min
Memoir - Anzac Days
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.
Nov 09, 2024•13 min
Memoir - The Day My Father Died
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.
Nov 02, 2024•10 min
Memoir - Pick a Year, Any Year!
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.
Oct 26, 2024•12 min
Memoir - The Family Tree
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.
Oct 19, 2024•12 min
Memoir - Why Don't You Get a Real Job?
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 lot about who you are as a person.
Oct 12, 2024•12 min
Memoir - The Day I Met a Murderer
A brush with fame (or in this case, infamy) leads to encounters with other famous people and a bag of mixed lollies.
Oct 05, 2024•12 min
Memoir - The Day I Defied Gravity
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?
Sep 28, 2024•11 min
Memoir - The Day I Saw My First Nudie-Boobs
The memoir tip in this Write Now podcast is on how to include an event that was special to you growing up.
Sep 21, 2024•12 min
Memoir - The Day of the First Prawn Cocktail
This memoir chapter introduces a wonderful woman who lived to 101 with the motto, 'life is too short for tepid food or tepid people'.
Sep 14, 2024•12 min
Memoir - The Day Roger Went in to Bat
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.
Sep 07, 2024•14 min
Write Now - A Memoir
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!
Aug 31, 2024•17 min
Write Now - A Eulogy
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.
Aug 24, 2024•16 min
Write Now - A Documentary
This week, Katrina and Ian catch up to shoot the breeze about putting together a documentary.
Aug 17, 2024•14 min
Write Now - Focus on Ability
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.
Aug 10, 2024•9 min
Write Now - They Are Not a Weird Mob
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.
Aug 03, 2024•15 min
Write Now - Can AI Replace Creativity?
This podcast looks at the amazing yet frightening world of AI and its threat to human creativity.
Jul 27, 2024•14 min
Write Now - A Word on Plays
In this Write Now podcast Ian flies solo and talks about arguably the easiest writing genre to get published, plays.
Jul 20, 2024•13 min
Write Now - Blogging
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.
Jul 13, 2024•18 min
Write Now - Song Lyrics
Write Now Podcast. Songwriting. Katrina and Ian both have written songs. Ian has co-written seven albums. Where do those lyric ideas come from?
Jul 06, 2024•16 min
Write Now - Stream of Consciousness
Write Now Podcast. Heard of a stream of consciousness? It can be a great way to get writing.
Jun 29, 2024•17 min
Write Now - Comedy
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.
Jun 22, 2024•16 min
Write Now - Characters
This Write Now podcast is a chat about developing characters.
Jun 15, 2024•17 min
Write Now - Non-Fiction
This podcast is about how to write non-fiction and make it engaging and entertaining.
Jun 08, 2024•17 min
Write Now - Historical Fiction
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!
Jun 01, 2024•16 min
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