HSC Reflection Statements & TED Talks on Writing

HSC, English Extension 2

Reflection statements and top tips

"Students featured in the 2016 wordeXpress Young Writers Showcase share their top tips for success in these short clips.

Reflection statements from 2015 - 2019 provide exemplars for this critical element of the major work.

Ted Talks On Writing

Browse these links to find great Ted talks to inspire fiction writing, author talks and life lessons from writers.

Literary Hub, Mapping a story

How Mapping Alice Munro’s Stories Helped Me As a Writer

New York Times

550 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing

From the New York Times, each link on this amazing site leads to a piece of writing as well as thoughtful questions that will prompt you to discover depth in the text.

Skim and scan the groups of stories until your brain responds with interest to the topic, click the link to read the prose.

Author Podcasts from the ABC

Podcasts from the ABC with writers discussing their works

The Book Show

The Book Show brings you in-depth conversations with the best fiction writers from Australia and around the world.

Episodes to love

Masterclass with Tim Winton, Arundhati Roy, Michael Ondaatje and more
Some of the biggest names from the writing world share their top writing tips, in this special episode of The Book Show.

Books on Writing

The little red writing book by Mark Tredinnick
Call Number: SNF 808 TRE
ISBN: 9780868408675
Publication Date: 2006
A book on technique, style, craft and manners for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design.
Negotiating with the dead by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: SNF 808.3 ATW
ISBN: 1844080277
Publication Date: 2003
In this wise and irresistibly quotable book, one of the most intelligent writers working in English addresses the riddle of her art: why people pursue it, how they view their calling, and what bargains they make with their audience, both real and imagined. To these fascinating issues Booker Prize-winner Margaret Atwood brings a candid appraisal of her own experience as well as a breadth of reading that encompasses everything from Dante to Elmore Leonard.
On Writing by Stephen King
Call Number: SNF 808 KIN
ISBN: 9781444723250
Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in the vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 - and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever
The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler; Michele Montez (Illustrator)
Call Number: SNF 808.2 VOG
ISBN: 9781932907360
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
The udated and revised third edition provides new insights and observations from Vogler's ongoing work on mythology's influence on stories, movies, and man himself. The previous two editons of this book have sold over 180,000 units, making this book a 'classic' for screenwriters, writers, and novelists.