This is Jotham – Author – Author, Storyteller, Bible miner, Thinker

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Hi, thanks for dropping in. Great to see you! I use this blog as a writer’s notebook; you can see my work as it’s being written.

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Research Trip Part 3 – The Sharehouse

How cool is this! Here is the house we found in Surrey Hills, In the book I won’t be specific about the address or the street, but it pays to have something in mind to base the fictional description on. When she turned into the tree-lined street, she could not believe her good fortune. A
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Research Trip Part 2 – The Universities

This was a surprisingly interesting post to write. Remember that I’m using this blog primarily as a writer’s notebook, and this one’s about my impressions of the universities – more specifically, about Em’s impressions. You can see that the buildings become metaphors for people, so please forgive me if the critique of the architecture sounds
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Research Trip – Part 1 – The Fish and Chip Shop

Miss Pepper and I left mid Sunday morning and cruised down to Sydney. It’s about a 4-5 hour run from the mid-North Coast. The Take Away shop When Em’s life is almost at rock bottom, she flees the inner city, selecting a road with no consideration of where it will take her. She’s just driving
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Holding On News – Meeting the Elephant Page Publishing team

I was so pleased (and nervous!) to meet the team at Elephant Page Publishing via video link today. I felt honoured and special to be “believed in” by a bunch of people that I don’t even know. (I was so nervous that I forgot to get a screenshot of the meeting.) Per, Soraya, Daniel, Kel,
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Critical Thinking Skill #1: Test “Big Words”

A while ago, I started a train of thought about Critical Thinking. Since the last one, I have been occupied with my current novel, Breaking Free, and haven’t been back to it since. There is no idea that is so complicated that it cannot be explained simply, with simple words arranged in easy sentences. When
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Who’s the better writer? Me or ChatGPT

Just saw a social media post of an author castigating another author for using AI to write a story, and I think I’m inclined to agree. But I reckon a decent author can outgun ChatGPT any day of the week. (Maybe, twelve months from now, it will be a different story.) Consequently, I’m going head-to-head
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