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2012’s Science Fiction in Review.

  Science Fiction in 2012. Science fiction has not had a great year in television and movies. No Inception or Moon was released this year. No Torchwood made it on to the small screen and Doctor Who mainly sucked again.

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Movies of Books.

  Movies of Novels. I have read both the Life of Pi, by Yann Martel and The Hobbit, so I will toddle off to the picture theatre to see their films. When I read the Life of Pi I found

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How Many Books People Read Per Annum.

How Many Books Do People Read Per Year? While reading some 2012 research about the rise of e-reading I came across the following statistics: 78% of Americans aged over 16 years had read a book in the past year. Of

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10 Aussie Books To Read Before You Die.

Last night I watched a recording of the first Tuesday Night Book Club’s “10 Aussie Books to Read Before you Die.” For much of this year the show’s website asked people to select their choice from a list of 50

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The Rise of the Novella.

  Novellas on the Rise A few days ago I read an article in the Age that boldly declared the novella was back, due to the advent of the ebook. Not the most insightful declaration because most writers would already

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Week Two of National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month I am three-fifths of the way through my unofficial National Novel Writing Month. This is how I went: Day 12: I had a lot of fun creating an alien. Originally it was going to be a

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Week One of National Novel Writing Month.

The First Full Week of NaNo I have just finished my first full week of my unofficial attempt at National Novel Writing Month. It has been a tiring week and my neck is sore. The week began with day five

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The Start of National Novel Writing Month.

My Unofficial NaNoWriMo I am four days into my unofficial attempt at National Novel Writing Month. To achieve the 50,000 words in a month I need to average 1667 words a day. I began the challenge with 105,713 words of

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National Novel Writing Month.

  National Novel Writing Month. As many writers will be aware, National Novel Writing Month starts next Thursday. The idea is to write 50,000 words of a novel in a month. I did it last year along with 256,618 writers.

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Author Tony Birch in Wangaratta.

  A few weeks back I saw Tony Birch speak about his Miles Franklin nominated novel Blood.I bought a copy of the novel due to Tony being part-indigenous (I have an evolving interest in novels written by Indigenous Australian or

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