Confessions of a Tired (Aspirational) Writer.
As per usual, life has interfered in a major way with my writing so far this year. I went on holidays for ten days, I have had problems with my broadband, I have had problems with Divine, and a medicine I rely on went out of stock which made me even more tired than usual. […]
Reinhardt’s amazeballs ewebumsuckers
The genesis of this post comes from a typo and suspected typo. I will start with the suspected typo. Last week I read a press release announcing the BBC was remaking Blake’s Seven. The press release says: “Joe Pokaski and Martin Campbell have worked tirelessly with the Georgeville TV team to create an amazeballs reboot […]
New Yorker Magazine Rejects Itself.
The New Yorker Rejects a Story it had Already Published. I recently read a very funny article where writer David Cameron “grabbed a New Yorker story off the web, copied it into a Word document, changed only the title, created a fictitious author identity, and submitted it to a slew of literary journals”. His letter […]
Science fiction should be mandatory in schools.
I just read an article where an American politician, Ray Canterbury, wants to make reading science fiction mandatory in schools. My first response was how the hell did he ever get elected as a republican: aren’t they all creationialists and global warming deniers? My second response was what a great idea. Reading science fiction […]
Review of Chris Pavey’s Running Against Time
Why do runners always look like they are suffering so much pain? According to Chris Pavey’s book, Running Against Time, it is probably because they are injured, full of self-doubt, or in desperate need of a toilet break. Why do they put themselves through so much pain and self-doubt? Are they slightly mad and more […]
Marathon Stories.
Marathon Stories. Three Encounters with the Physical by Graeme Simsion came second in the recent Age Short Story Awards. The story is about a disastrous attempt at a first marathon and had a bit more resonance with me because last year I helped edit Chris Pavey’s Running Against Time, a book about Chris’ conversion […]
My past two weeks.
My writing.
Hi all, After a number of posts not about me, I thought it was time to shout out to the world about what I have been up to with my writing. New Article on Divine I have a new article up on the Divine website. This one is for all those people who love […]
To Plot or Abandon.
Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters (Part Two) If you missed my last post, I have been reading an ibook called Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters. The masters are John Irving, Carol Joyce Oates, Ernest J Gaines, Amy Tan, Norman Mailer and Carol Shields. Plotting a novel. There are supposedly two types of writers: […]
Creative Writing: Learning From the Masters.
I am about halfway through the ibook, Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters. The masters are Norman Mailer, Amy Tan, Earnest J Gaines, John Irving, Carol Shields, and Joyce Carol Oates. I have read a couple of John Irving’s novels (The World According To Garp and Hotel New Hampshire) and seen at least three films […]