BY CARMEN MARCUS It was the summer of 1984 and Lady Di was just about to marry my toy gorilla, Gogo. My mum was standing watching the rain and then she did something extraordinary. She thrust her hands through the glass pane of the back door. My dad grabbed Lady Di’s (aka Barbie) long wedding […]| The Writers' College Times
BY NIKKY LEE “Kill your adverbs.” This advice came from thriller writer John Harman. I was eighteen, in my first year of university, and had enrolled in one of his creative writing workshops to brush up on Writing Dramatic Dialogue. While I picked up many a handy dialogue tip, it was this particular nugget of […]| The Writers' College Times
BY HEINRICH VAN DER WALT “You know, you should write this stuff down,” Anton said. We were sitting on the back porch of our farmhouse, looking out over the grassy backyard. It was a typical sweltering summer in the Karoo, the only respite from the heat coming from the ice cream cones we were […]| The Writers' College Times
