Tag Archives: writing
I haz a complaint
It just must have been the day for it. I heard the same question so many times today that I started to wonder if I was in Groundhog Dog or if someone was just messing with me.
Every second person wanted to be introduced to a literary agent (one in four wanted to be
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Clarity + Specificity = Authority OR How to Make the Lie Work
Art by Kathleen Jennings
Thinky Thinkerton has booked the smallest room in Hotel Brain and has been contemplating authorial authority (yes, she’s a nerd with a lot of time on her hands). Basically, I’ve been wondering this: how do
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I give you the new Writer's Bible: Booklife
http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/04/21/booklife-turned-innow-it-begins/
I have been fortunate enough to beta-read this and everything in it is useful and wise. On at least four occasions I found solutions to writerly problems I was suffering. Best of all, it’s written by a writer – a real writer who’s already experienced and overcome the issues and offers up sensible, workable solutions for
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Short Films
Had a very nice meeting with talented young film maker James Findlay yesterday (http://www.vendtheshortfilm.googlepages.com/home) and had a chat about making a film of one of my Daily Cabal microfictions, Sunday Drivers (http://www.dailycabal.com/angela_slatter/). Another mutual friend, the equally talented Mark Kassab wrote a short film script, Sisters, based on Sunday Drivers, and James liked it so much that he wants
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Coming Attractions from Twelfth Planet Press: Horn by Peter M Ball
Coming in June 2009 Horn by Peter M Ball
http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com
There’s a dead girl in a dumpster and a unicorn on the loose – and no-one knows how bad that combination can get better than Miriam Aster. What starts as a consulting job for city homicide quickly becomes a tangled knot of unexpected questions, and working out the link between the dead
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Friday = Writingday (TM)
Some people call it ‘procrastination’ … I like to think of it as ‘contemplation’ .
So, as I sit here in my pyjamas (the ones with the feet in them), eating my yoghurt and kiwi fruit, slurping down the vanilla coffee, I am staring out the window of the study here at the ramshackle cottage. I am staring straight at the
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On Reviewing
“Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.”
(Evelyn Waugh)
“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I took up reviewing
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