Dreamy Thoughtlessness
“Writing takes you in a direction,” claims the renowned Michael Meehan, “The idea of writing a book, comes from just writing the book”. This quote, from The Mallee Project session, was something that resonated and stuck with me like glue throughout the remainder of the writer’s festival. I was struck with the realisation that everything Sue had been saying was truly how a writer writes, and everything that I had thought about writing was wrong. Before the festival had started, Sue, the Writers in Action lecturer, made the effort to teach my class how to write in a way that would allow myself and my peers to make sense of imaginative and informative writing. We were taught about the four different purposes and voices within writing, which expanded to understanding the audience that would be viewing the work and what they would be expecting to find in certain styles of writing. However, finding my voice was easily the most significant, but also hardest, part about writing fo
