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Tag: Writing

Insecurity

Broken Keyhole
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Two articles were

recently brought to my attention via the Twitterz: Amber Sparks’ ‘The Influence of Anxiety‘, and Kirsty Logan’s response at the Pank Blog, ‘This Modern Writer: Youth Is All’. You should all …

#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 …

Keeping secrets

This morning I watched a TED Talk by the bright and enthusiastic (at least from this one talk) Derek Sivers. Like every other TED talk I’ve watched, it spoke very immediately to a practise that I’ve been guilty of, but …