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Episode 3—Position of the ‘I’ from observer to centre stage  

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on January 18, 2023

This next passage in my series is from the contemporary British author Deborah Levy’s memoir,…

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Episode 2: The ‘I’ and other voices

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

This is my second post for writers on the topic of the first person ‘I’ in creative nonfiction and memoir.

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Episode 1: the presence of the ‘I’ in memoir and creative nonfiction

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on January 5, 2023

One of the challenges of writing memoir and other forms of narrative nonfiction is how much presence the ‘I’ should have as the narrator at any moment in the text.  

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So you’ve finished your novel. Press Pause.

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on April 7, 2022April 8, 2022

This week an emerging writer whose work I’ve seen develop over the past two to…

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From ‘scenelets’ to scene

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on July 5, 2021

A take-away from last week’s sessions had to do with gathering small scenes or sequences of incidents together into a more substantive single scene.

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A night at the theatre

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on June 9, 2021June 10, 2021

A homecoming. A picnic. A party. A leavetaking. Writing prompt.

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The critical first, middle and last 10 pages

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on May 17, 2021May 18, 2021

In the most recent of Writing NSW’s First Friday Club talks, hosted by author Ashley Kalagian Blunt, publisher…

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Hilary Mantel’s first person

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on May 2, 2021May 2, 2021

A thousand pages of writing were framed by Mantel’s first paragraphs about Cromwell the boy:…

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a pinch of megalomania

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021

“Lie about everything to anyone who’s a stranger to you.” Reading excerpts of Walter Serner’s…

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Australia awash with political memoir

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on September 9, 2015March 5, 2021

Do sales say anything meaningful about these books’ impact on our political process or cultural debate?

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