Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) says that ‘life only makes sense in retrospect’. My story ‘For Jane’ began some years ago when I wanted to write about the endurance - or otherwise - of friendships. Author JG Ballard maintains that friends only become so when they have a secondary experience in common. We six friends shared our … Continue reading Writing Friendship
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Anzac Day for Writers
Poet and novelist, Ocean Vuong, whose mother was a child of the Vietnam War, has said that all literature is the history of war*. He need not be taken literally, although I tend to do so. More broadly though, we may agree that literature relies on conflict or inner tension for its existence. Sometimes with … Continue reading Anzac Day for Writers
WRITINGS AND MUSINGS OF MARGARET MCCAFFREY 