Valerie Khoo

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 736 of So You Want to Be a Writer, the podcast that's all about writing and publishing.

My name's Valerie Koo.

I'm CEO of the Australian Writers' Centre, the world's leading centre for writing courses, and I'm your host.

Now, can I tell you about a recent manuscript that I opened and I started reading and the first sentence was about the light.

Thanks so much for your writing tip this week, Nat.

Cool.

Thanks, Valerie.

Right, that brings us to our competition.

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 735 of So You Want to Be a Writer, the podcast that's all about writing and publishing.

My name's Valerie Koo.

I'm CEO of the Australian Writers' Centre, the world's leading centre for writing courses, and I'm your host.

Now, can I tell you about a woman called Margarita? So I met Margarita on like about page 140 or something of a manuscript that I was reading.

Okay.

Yeah.

I don't know if you catch a lot of public transport, Valerie, but I catch a lot of public transport when I'm not walking or riding my bike or on a plane or somewhere weird.

I catch a lot of buses and trains.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 734 of So You Want To Be A Writer, the podcast that's all about writing and publishing.

My name's Valerie Khoo.

I'm CEO of the Australian Writers' Centre, the world's leading centre for writing courses, and I'm your host.

Okay.

[laughs]

Yeah.

[laughs] That's true of so many things though, isn't it, Valerie? Easier said than done maybe.

Yeah.

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 733 of So You Want to Be a Writer, the podcast that's all about writing and publishing.

My name's Valerie Koo.

I'm CEO of the Australian Writers' Centre, the world's leading centre for writing courses, and I'm your host.

Now, somebody asked me recently how you learn pace.

Also a novelist, short story writer, playwright, number of things.

How are you,

Nat? I'm great, Valerie.

How are you going?