"I love the cultural and intellectual stimulation of living in a city, but I also want the beauty and tranquility of the country where I can imagine my love stories and bring them to life on paper." Canberra has a thriving writing community and Valerie is well-known there, currently conducting writing courses and having lectured on romance writing at the University of Canberra and given workshops at the Canberra Writers' Center. "I wanted the best of both worlds," says Valerie. "I get all the fun of having children without any of the hard bits, a bit like the babies in my books!"Īfter many years of living in Sydney, the marriage moved to Australia's capital city, Canberra, where they are surrounded by over half a million trees, making it the most beautiful city in the country. "There I go again with the best of both worlds," she says. With no children of her own, Valerie is happy to play surrogate mother to her "rent-a-kids," Amelia and Nicholas, and to her agent's delightful twins, Kate and Eliza.
Valerie Parv is married to her own romantic hero, Paul, a former crocodile hunter in Australia’s tropical north turned cartoonist. We ship within 24 hours of your purchase with a Delivery Confirmation. An invaluable book for writers in all fields, from business writers, novelists, students, and journalists this book will encourage you to think more creative with the end result being a more competent and secure writer.
She has an effective method to overcome "thinker's block" and get to be a more effective writer. She shows you specific steps you can take to open your mind and become more creative. Using step-by-step methods she helps you to gain access to your built-in idea factory and get ideas when you need them, even learn to write while you sleep. Valerie Parv, authort of over 50 books believes that creativity is a learnable skill and she shows how you can foster that and have more and better ideas. Spine is firm and uncreased, text is clean and unmarked, cover shows very light shelf wear (book looks like it was never read) a nice copy. Used Softcover Edition published by Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1995, 224 pages in Very Good Condition.
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