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  • Roads To Writing 2. Finding Story Ideas

    Roads To Writing 1. Making Your Characters Speak, #1

    by David McRobbie ...
    Series Book 1 - Roads To Writing 1. Making Your Characters Speak
    In the second Roads To Writing, we explore the important business of getting ideas for our stories. As David McRobbie, points out you need an idea to start your story and a whole succession of them to keep it going. The first part talks about the beginning of ideas and where they come from. The second part is a workshop on how to find ideas and what to do with them.The third part deals with the ... Read more

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  • Two Kinds of Knowledge

    by David McRobbie ...
    The English writer, Samuel Johnson once declared: 'Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where to find information on it.'This resource for teachers contains forty challenges which invite students to name things within a given category. An example is to collect the names of towns or cities with a river running through them. Students first tackle this challenge without ... Read more

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  • Mandragora

    by David McRobbie ...
    Mandragora is the story of four old curses that destroyed a 19th century sailing ship, the Dunarling, and most of her passengers and crew. A hundred years later four teenagers uncover the objects that carried the curses — and the evil starts again, but this time in the small coastal town that bears the name of the doomed ship. Adam Hardy, with help from Catriona Chisholm, begins to unravel details ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Caution

    by David McRobbie ...
    The Fourth CautionSynopsisAdam Kingston is an apprentice motor-mechanic with a love of cars and equally keen on Tania, another apprentice in the repair shop where he works. Then Adam hears another girl's voice in his head calling him to come to her. Adam is unaware that he is part of a 'mission' of four babies, sent from a future time to be fostered and brought up where the environment is ... Read more

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  • Brisbane Stories

    by David McRobbie ...
    The practice of 'initiation', hazing or bullying is frequently in the news. It is not an experience reserved for working class victims as reports of incidents in university halls of residence will show. The so-called 'tradition' pervades the highest levels of business, the medical profession and even government.However the stories in this hard hitting Australian collection are more down-to-earth, ... Read more

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  • Falling Up Stairs

    by David McRobbie ...
    Some say your teenage years are like falling up stairs — sometimes painful, but you'll eventually get there. Here then are two separate stories about boys who are in the middle of their hurtful journeys. The first boy, Matthew, aims to win the girl of his dreams, but the dreams keep interfering with his reality and he makes many a stumbleThe second boy, Geoffrey, likes to have things just so, neat ... Read more

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  • Roads to Writing 1. Making Your Characters Speak

    by David McRobbie ...
    David McRobbie is an Australian writer for children and young adults who has written and published more than forty books, ten radio plays and three television series, all of which employ dialogue. He's been at the writing game for fifty-six years and now wants to put some of his techniques on record. Roads To Writing, the first e-book in a proposed series, looks at how to lay out dialogue when it ... Read more

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  • Robo-dude

    by David McRobbie ...
    Shaun is no ordinary teenage boy, in fact he's not a boy at all. Shaun is a robot, otherwise known as Robo-dude, a domestic helper around the house. He has been bought by mother and daughter, Sandra and Chloe Wilson to bring some order into their busy lives.After a few teething problems, Shaun fits in very well. The house has never been so tidy. Then Chloe discovers there are other tasks Robo-dude ... Read more

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  • Roads to Writing 5. Conflict

    by David McRobbie ...
    This essay deals with conflict in creative writing. It explains what it is and how it can be incorporated into stories. There is a chapter dealing with the definition of conflict, another has a directory of conflicts then follows many examples of conflict being used to bring stories to life. ... Read more

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  • In Prior's Pocket

    by David McRobbie ...
    Teenager Bill Fields and his father move into a new but old house, which is one of four identical dwellings in Prior's Pocket. For Bill, the place takes some getting used to; it's old and spooky, especially in the daytime when he comes home to an empty house.One day, he finds the place has an attic and discovers up there a model house. Bill sets about restoring the model, cleaning and ... Read more

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  • The Crimes of Tom Callow

    by David McRobbie ...
    In Victorian London, we meet Tom Callow, a young man with a puffed-up sense of entitlement. He believes that an inheritance should be his but instead it goes to Blythe Armstrong, a teenage girl living in far off colonial Sydney. Blythe is invited to England to finalise details of her estate. Tom decides to put things right by travelling incognito to Australia and returning on the same ship as ... Read more

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  • Roads to Writing 4. Mystery Fiction

    by David McRobbie ...
    This is an essay, a personal view, on the craft of writing mystery fiction, or whodunits. It looks at finding plot ideas, creating the detective character and suspects. The essay goes on to explore the tricky business of laying clues within a story, together with some cunning tricks to disguise them. ... Read more

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