by Naomi Adams | Nov 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Dark 3 The plot When I started my creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, I planned to write a serial killer story based in Perth. I wanted to capture that sense of an invisible threat hiding in plain sight that had stayed with...
by Naomi Adams | Nov 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Deep 3 The characters When I started writing The Shark, I had only the vaguest sense of the two main characters, Carmen and Raych. I knew they were two young women who barely knew each other who’d met on a psychiatric ward. I knew they were each...
by Naomi Adams | Nov 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Beach 3 The significance of the setting Cottesloe Beach was the first place we lived as a family in Western Australia. It was where I first swam in the ocean, where I hung out as a teenager, and a place I always came back to after I moved away....
by emmasdevel | Apr 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Country 3 The significance of the setting The journey Nao and Charlie make in No Country for Girls spans over 2000 kilometres of mostly remote country between Whadjuk Country in Perth and Bardi Jawi Country up on the Dampier Peninsula north of...
by emmasdevel | Apr 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Girls 3 The arrival of the characters I first met Charlie and Nao in September 2018 in a writing exercise, after which they talked constantly in my head for months. All I needed to do in writing the first draft was get them talking on the page....
by emmasdevel | Apr 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Journey 3 The evolution of the roadtrip I knew from the start I wanted a Thelma & Louise-style chase plot for Charlie and Nao but this was complicated by the fact they didn’t know each other at the beginning of the book. The two of them...
