The emerging writer’s festival, part four.
Hi all, The Revolution will be Downloaded was the fourth session I attended at the Emerging Writer’s Festival. The spiel for the session suggested I might find out about new writing markets and ways to promote my writing online. The Yarra Room was full with writers eager to learn about new opportunities. Rachel Hills, a […]
Emerging Writer’s Festival, Part Three.
Hi all, The Great State Divide, during The Emerging Writer’s Festival, had a number of interstate writers debating what they thought made their state’s writing unique and different from that of the other states. The debaters included Lisette Ogg who works for the Queensland Writer’s Centre; Rachel Hennessy, her first novel, The Quakers, won the […]
The Emerging Writer’s Festival, part two.
Hi all, This is my second post on the Emerging Writer’s Festival that I attended in Melbourne on the 30th and 31st of May. My first post covered the session, Seven Enviable Lines. After that session I followed the crowd upstairs where about 150 of us crammed into the smaller, but slightly better lit, Yarra […]
Stupid myspace
Hi all, Remain calm Graham, it is not the end of the world. I just spent about an hour writing a beautiful post about the emerging writer’s festival only to have it disappear into the ether. I haven’t got a clue what I did or even if I did anything. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Because myspace has previously […]
Emerging Writer’s Festival – Part One
Hi all, Last weekend I went to the Emerging Writer’s Festival held at the town hall in Melbourne. Over the weekend I attended nine panel discussions on various subjects. I found all except one of them of interest. At a cost of $37 it was a bargain for any writer living in Melbourne. I had […]
Time Machines – Repaired While U Wait, a review
Hi all, I have always loved a good story about time travel. Bad time travel stories have someone going back to a time where the protagonist frets about changing the future – will I or won’t I kill Hitler, Jack the Ripper, George Bush – and usually have me wanting the protagonist to have never […]
Review – The Elves of Cintra, by Terry Brooks
The Elves of Cintra is the second book in the three book Genesis ofShannara series by Terry Brooks. It is probably classified as young adult because the majority of the characters are teenagers, and the series has as its overarching theme that adults destroyed the Earth, so it is up to children/teens to save it. […]
Apologies to blog comment makers
Sorry to those who have made comments that I have seemed to ignore. I had thought that I had set blogger to notify me everytime someone made a comment, as happens with the myspace version of this blog, but obviously I did something wrong. I think I have rectified the problem.
Review – Analog Sept 2001
Hi all, I know it’s not the latest edition of Analog – and I still have plenty of earlier editions to read – but I learn a lot from reading older editions of what is probably the world’s best science-fiction magazine. This time around, the magazine had one novella, one novelette, two short stories and […]
Critiquing.
Hi all, My weekly critters email had a link to a survey on online critiquing. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aKiQQ2gam6kAeSOypOK8lg_3d_3d I completed the simple survey, which I don’t think will be that informative for the masters student conducting it, unless a lot of people, like me, write lengthy comments in the comments box at the end. The survey listened […]