The great thing for me as a writer when taking up a new past time (or even talking to other people about their hobbies), is learning a new language. Today, I started an introduction to archery and it is an entire world, replete with a vocabulary, some of which is quite ancient. There is the fletch, … Continue reading Writer to the line
Stuff I Like
Filled with references to stuff I like in music, film, tv, reading, writing, online etc.
Review: Piecing it together II
The National Gallery of Victoria - Australia, (the one in Federation Square, not St Kilda Road), is showcasing The Australian Quilt - 1800-1950. By now, if you've been visiting here a bit, you know I'm not a hard-core cyber punk biker goth, but neither am I the ultra crafty capable arm-knit your own bespoke tree-beach … Continue reading Review: Piecing it together II
Review: Piecing it together I
For about another week, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is home to The Nightingale and the Rose, a short film and exhibition reinterpreting the story by Oscar Wilde. The film is an animated lyrical piece featuring the art work of Del Kathryn Barton with filmmaker Brendan Fletcher. You don't need to be familiar with … Continue reading Review: Piecing it together I
Marginalia Code
I'm not against eBooks or technology. In may ways they are preferable to bits of paper and cardboard. I remember thinking this the last time I moved, for instance. However, there are benefits to physical books for writers. One of my favourite second-hand book stores is cosy and full of interesting texts, but it does … Continue reading Marginalia Code
Review: Crimson Peak
It's big news in Australia that apparently Tom Hiddleston is here filming the eleventy billionth Marvel film, Thor: Ragnarok. Although, I'm wishing it was just Ragnarok. In a not completely unrelated event, I finally got around to watching the luscious looking but ultimately ultra-Freudian Gothic-by-numbers Crimson Peak. It's a bit like Phantom of the Opera, … Continue reading Review: Crimson Peak
A break in the weather
I'm tired today, and have been unaccountably sad when I have no reason to be. I'm full to the brim of doubt and what ifs and why should Is and what's the point of it all. It's a mood I suppose, or a personality pitfall. It'll pass. All moods do, even the most bleak. Of … Continue reading A break in the weather
Locavore
I enjoy over thinking the latest (or latest I can be bothered with catching up with) in genre fiction from Hollywood as much as anyone. So Star Trek Beyond was a good time, and across a couple of days I enjoyed Matt Damon sciencing the sh*t out of stuff in The Martian. I only just … Continue reading Locavore
Review: Star Trek Beyond
A little spoilery, k? On first impressions I probably don't strike people as the thrill seeking adrenalin chaser type. Bespectacled, literary and socially awkward in unfamiliar surroundings or around new people, I prefer to know what's expected of me and when ahead of time in many areas of my life. I like to know where I'm … Continue reading Review: Star Trek Beyond
Double take
In case you've missed updates elsewhere, my short story Thylaseen is out now on Kudzu House Quarterly. In addition, my review/think piece, called Winging It, is now on the Criticism Masterclass at the Emerging Writer's Festival is, voila, also available to read at The Writers Bloc. Everyone involved was courteous and easy to deal with, … Continue reading Double take
Review: The Paper House
A fragile thread Finally, I've finished reading The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan. It could be the newly diagnosed a-typical asthma, but this novel has winded me. I had to pause while reading it, sometimes for a week, because it was painful, but also because I wanted to dwell in it in a way I … Continue reading Review: The Paper House
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