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Month: September, 2010

Globe

Every now and again

I get an idea in my head to do something that I think perhaps Louise would like. When we moved into our current house in Rivervale, we had, for the first time, a garden to look …

#Critfail

glowworm
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The Wheeler Centre’s Critical Failure series, designed to encourage debate about the failure of Australian arts criticism, has generated a huge amount of ancillary commentary around the interwebs. As proof, take the number of reference links I’ve …

Process

Old newspaper
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Today I wanted

to show how I go about writing flash fiction and shorter works, like those I wrote for the 3 word challenges that I asked for a month or so ago. What you’ll find below …

Directions

The right way
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Last week Spike,

the ever-interesting blog of the Meanjin crew, explored the conundrum of writing for an audience. This is a question that has come up often in the forums of places like …

Hidden treasure

I tend to scribble a lot
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My good friend

Amber linked me to this article yesterday, featuring an exasperated Carol Ryles talking about the lack of places new and emerging writers to promote their work.The first quote is a doozy:

“It