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As I was
sitting at the Perth Writer’s Festival today, listening to Eleanor Catton read aloud from her book The Rehearsal, I noticed that she used simile to great effect in her setting of scenes and characters. That got me to thinking (egotistically) about my own writing and how often I thought I [...]
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Hi all and
welcome to yet another edition of Untangling the Web. In this post I’ll be discussing the mammoth Google Books deal, followed by a rant encompassing many people’s opinion on literary prizes, and finally some useful links for the literature-inclined. As always, thanks go to my main sources of links: [...]
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Hello all and
welcome to the second edition of ‘Untangling The Web’! UtW’s aim is to become a semi-regular blog built to provide you with some of the trending topics across the Internet that relate to writing and publishing. Hopefully in doing so we’ll be able to generate some discussion and opinions about [...]
What you see
above is the worst car I have ever had the misfortune of cringing at in Perth. How is it the worst? Let me count the ways:
It is a Nissan trying hard to be a Beetle: Never mind the fact that the new Voltswagon Beetle itself is a cutesy bubblegum car that deserves to [...]
photo credit: Wonderlane
Warning: Rambling self exploration ahead.
Also, falling boulders.
Living in today’s
world is, I think you’ll admit, pretty great. Technologies enable us to communicate with our ‘friends‘ and family, even complete strangers with the ease of a mouse-click. Of course, there’s a lot of arguments being made about the increased availability that this produces; when [...]