Tag: writing
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Hurrahs!
A quick update because I have to do some novel writing tonight, but wanted to say hurrah! and thanks! to all the people who came to the very first launch of my very first book, A Book of Endings at Cabinet Bar over the Continuum weekend in Melbourne. I’m not sure if it was the…
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Bookending
Now that A Book of Endings is largely done — for me, at least (until the launches. Stay tuned!) — I can get back to projects I enjoy, have been missing have put off for the interim. My first task was to come up with a timeline to get me through the writing committments until…
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Rest of the year
At highschool I had a friend who insisted it was important right after an exam to take the rest of the day off and not study. Important to rest the brain and re-establish your energies. Workable idea, provided you didn’t have a second exam that day. I treat a lot of things like that. Reading…
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Ninety per cent
The window is replaced, the excitement has died down, I still can’t find anything missing from the house after last week’s uninvited visit. But now we have a motion-sensitive light over our backyard & a locksmith scheduled to make our internal door even more steadfast than it proved to be last week. (What a great…
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State of change
“It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.” — Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman http://www.quoteworld.org/ Updates on the state of things can be found at: girliejones‘s blog: I guess though I’d be really interested in what people in the scene think…
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If you’re not part of the solution …
Shane Jiraiya Cummings has some energetic solutions over at his blog (where lj feed? I can’t cope with no lj feed!): The solution to all this debate is to act. And more action from benpayne: That said, I’m not intending to copy those magazines, nor am I looking for material which is derivative of their…
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No things left unsaid
Over at the discussion on editing, girliejones said: Our site is a good step but I wonder if we are properly reviewing the editing? In some places we are. But in what cases is a bad story the fault of the editor and not the writer? Prompting a thoughtful response from newish lj holder, Tansy…
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What really matters
boingboing rounds up noodly links for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Also, benpayne gives us a fairly reasonable to-do list. benpeek says something about audience. canoblivious is pleased we’re talking scene. azhure has a poll. And probably more besides. What an engaging week! Also: it is difficult to type around the edges of a cat. In…
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This’ll get letters
Ouch! girliejones fearlessly asks: Do editors/publishers know what is *good*? Who wants to play? :)
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Mopping up
Whew! I’m surprised & delighted by the amount of debate that spun out of the mention of punkrocker1991‘s editorial. Very cool! Russ, I suspect you really could do with some functioning forums over at Ticonderoga Online. I like that people are willing to engage on this, & that the intelligent to-ing & fro-ing rarely degenerates…