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Category Archives: Inion
New short story in Ricochet Magazine
I’ve got a new short something in issue uno of Ricochet Magazine, out today. It’s titled ‘Some words I did keep’. Apart from being honoured to be featured in Ricochet’s first issue, I feel obliged to say a bit about the experience. In my dealings with Ricochet, chiefly chief editor, Emily Tatti, I’ve been pleasantly [...]
DeLillo & Point
“It was only after two years’ work,” he confesses, “that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn’t realise I knew that I said, [...]
Fatima Bhutto, Complexities of storytelling, Nonfiction
Fatima Bhutto was due to be keynote speaker at the 2010 Byron Bay Writers Festival (but pulled out for, as far as I can tell, undisclosed reasons). While I knew there was a trend of getting individuals who are not, strictly speaking, writers to speak at writing festivals, the addition of Fatima piqued my curiosity. [...]
Laugh tracks
I watched an episode of Top Cat the other day and was amused by the fact it had a laugh track. The logic of it made me think back to when I was a kid. Though it was already old by the time I watched it, I remember enjoying Top Cat a lot. But had [...]
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Trauma writing
When I did my BA, I took a few writing subjects. The thing that struck me then, and has stayed with me since, was that many of my peers chose to write pieces that were based on or directly about their respective traumas. I heard proposals about the struggles and tension arising from obsessive compulsive [...]
Creating a sister text – Some thoughts on a hypertext
As I was writing on the weekend I got thinking about how narratives must always be incomplete. Incomplete in the way that a narrative cannot include every aspect of a story – because then it would cease being comprehensible and lose all semblance of being a narrative, among other things. The story I am writing [...]
Having a laugh – Timing in writing & comedy
I have been thinking a lot about timing. This is relevant to writing because timing in writing is important. And I’ve been thinking about it because I am writing a novel. Timing, I have discovered, is different to rhythm. Or maybe it’s still rhythmic, just a different wave. Rhythm at a micro-level – sentence, paragraph, [...]
Do writing courses ‘manufacture’ writers?
That’s the question I ask, and try to answer, in part four of my Qualified to write series on Australian Reader.com blog.
Qualified to write part trois…
…is now live at the AustralianReader.com blawg. The next and final part will be posted later in the week.
Winding down