BACK TO BASICS

Progress, achievement, action and creative endeavours all start from someone getting the words right.

Now’s the time to capture the stories of your life, whether it be writing your family history, finding the right words for a wedding speech, preparing a eulogy, organising a community event or writing a grant proposal.

Back to Basics is an opportunity to reclaim your writing power, fire up your brain and capture important moments in time for future generations.

 

Melissa has a lifetime of experience in the world of words. Her early media career involved almost daily calls to bereaved families to write their obituaries to publish in the local paper to honour the incredible lives and contributions of people in her regional community.

She has also written several history books and made a significant contribution to recording the history of individuals, projects, communities and landscapes.

Learn from one of the best how to research, write and capture the beating heart of regional communities.

Take homes of Back to Basics include but are not limited to:

• Got a story to tell? Discover how to get that story out of your head and down on paper.
• Record your important family history on paper for future generations; discover how to research and gather information, then put it together in a format for others to read.
• Write a wedding speech that has the whole room captivated, entertained and enlightened.
• Master the art of writing clearly with genuine human emotion to capture your loved one’s unique character for an obituary or eulogy.
• Learn how to write for digital media and social media platforms.
• Start a blog or Substack or newsletter that everyone wants to read.
• Tap into the creative side of your brain and learn how to write clearly for a school or university assignment.

Reclaim your brain, discover how you can harness your individual word power.

 

For almost three decades, Melissa has been helping business owners, project managers, community leaders and everyday people in rural and regional Australia understand who they are, what they do, why they do it. She also helped lead a whole community to choosing the right bin in one of Australia’s most successful and groundbreaking waste management campaigns. AND she’s a bestselling author, a leading voice for missing people and child safety and gathered donations of over $100,000 of new books to gift back to her local community devastated by fire.

In a world of relentless AI intrusion, Melissa writes real words and tells real stories to sell real products, engage real stakeholders and deliver real results.

She also writes crime novels that make people stop in their tracks.

 

She does TV, podcast and radio work including commercials and presenting. She organises major events and injects new life into tired and boring brands and marketing.

Open new doors for yourself by finding the right words.

This workshop is a perfect match for anyone and everyone!

Melissa sees the potential in everything and helps others see it too.

Melissa lives, works, breathes, writes and sets out on adventures in rural and regional Australia. Her work is strongly community-based – real stories, real people, real news.

She is passionate about genuine connections and communication. These are what keep rural and regional communities and businesses thriving.

Melissa is an exceptional communicator who has the ability to translate difficult concepts into common readable language. This is largely because she is able to relate to and engage with people at a personal level.

Her natural, down-to-earth presenting style inspire people to not only strive to be better, but to take what they’ve learnt to completely change their lives.

Let’s not give our power and what makes us unique to a computer that mines words and spits them back at us full of Americanisms, cliches and poor punctuation.

Join Melissa at her writing table and unlock your own individual, unique writing power.