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Love Invades Music: Writing Class with Ben Okri: Verve Magazine, July 2015

August 20, 2015 by Caroline Barron Author 2 Comments

Love Invades Music: Writing Class with Ben Okri by Caroline L. Barron. Verve Magazine July 2015
Love Invades Music: Writing Class with Ben Okri by Caroline L. Barron. Verve Magazine July 2015

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Ben Okri’s 10 Truths About Writing

July 9, 2015 by Caroline Barron Author 3 Comments

My definition of writerly heaven? A dozen of us in a room with Booker Prize-winning author, Ben Okri. His 10 Truths About Writing changed my world. Maybe they’ll change yours too?

Caroline L. Barron with Ben Okri. Auckland May 2015. Copyright Caroline L. Barron 2015.
Caroline L. Barron with Ben Okri. Auckland May 2015. Copyright Caroline L. Barron 2015.

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Filed Under: Blog Posts Tagged With: 10 truths about writing, Age of Magic, Auckland Writers Festival, Ben Okri, MCW, Paula Morris, University of Auckland, writing craft

Arriving at the Mid-Point (and Other Tales from a Master in Creative Writing Class)

June 5, 2015 by Caroline Barron Author 5 Comments

Hurrah! A profile page on the University of Auckland website (thanks Jonathan Burgess):

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-students-and-graduates/postgraduate-students-3/caroline-barron.html

I am now half-way through my Master in Creative Writing at the University of Auckland. The goal: finish the novel by mid-November. 85,000 words. I’m 30,000 in and it feels like I’m just hitting my stride; after a year or more of research and thinking about Evelyn and Morgan, my two protagonists, I know exactly who they are and can hear their thoughts in my mind as I write. It’s like everything before has been pressure on the ocean, and now the wave is finally visible from the shore. The sand under my feet feels good and during the five weeks between semesters, I’m grabbing my surfboard, baby.

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