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Speculating about fiction: October 2010
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. Con report day 4: part 2. Editing the novel" with Simon Spanton, Zoe Walton, Jean Johnson and Ginjer Buchanan. Spanton said he had one book he was editing that was too long and so he took two lines off every page and made further suggestions for cutting and returned it to the author, and the second draft came back 10,000 words longer than the first. [I'm glad I'm not the only writer who is capable of that! Spanton talked about using big ma...
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Speculating about fiction: March 2010
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. Student first chapters and outlines - a great way to get a feel for what my students are going to be working on this year, though sometimes one will change horses midway through, but that's okay. Over the last few weeks, my husband and I have been watching a series of motivational talks on TED.com. We've watched all kinds of things, including a fascinating talk on statistics. Yeah, I know. Go figure. Online teaching (and face-to-face).
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Speculating about fiction: Con report: day 4: part 1
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. Con report: day 4: part 1. I took in five panels on my final day of the con, so here's the rundown. The series question: big books chopped up or small books glued together" with Ian Irvine, David Cornish, Kate Forsyth, Lara Morgan and Mif Farquharson (although, looking at my notes, I haven't written down anything she said so it may be she was very quiet, or perhaps she wasn't there. I can't remember now.). Irvine said his first book went t...
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Speculating about fiction: May 2011
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. What makes a great poem? Without subscribing to any kind of cultural cringe, I have to admit to sometimes looking at the American poetry publishing scene with envy - poets like Ted Kooser and Billy Collins, Mary Oliver and Maya Angelou, who write amazing poetry that's brilliantly conceived and executed and yet easily accessible to most readers. Where are Australia's great poets writing in this vein? And informative - packed with great advi...
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Speculating about fiction: Con report: day 1
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. Con report: day 1. The first session I attended was in the academic stream - a talk by Gillian Polack on Writers and their history: how writers use and view the historical aspects of their settings. Polack is a historian, and I've attended her sessions at other cons, and they're always well informed and interesting, so I knew I had to see this one. The second session I went to was called "Steal the past, build the future: new histories for...
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Speculating about fiction: Con report: day 2, part 2
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. Con report: day 2, part 2. My third session was Shaun Tan's Guest of Honour speech. I'd pretty much heard this before at a SCWBI session a few years earlier, but it was well worth hearing and seeing it a second time. One of the things I found most interesting was that an earlier version of The arrival. That Faramir is the character the film let down, that what they lost was the possibility of pure honour that Faramir embodied. He had t...
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Speculating about fiction: August 2010
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. What you learn on trains . . . I was travelling by train the other day - something I don't do that often because I love driving - when I heard two teenagers or early twenty-somethings talking about their university courses. As a TAFE teacher, my ears instantly pricked. I'm always interested in what's going on in the trenches - even if they're not exactly our trenches. Ultimately, though, university (and TAFE) students are supposed to be do...
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Speculating about fiction: Worldcon report 1 overview
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. Worldcon report 1 overview. What I missed this year was the night life. Where was that exactly? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm a writer, editor and teacher of writing and editing at Victoria University (TAFE). I used to be a medical laboratory scientist and worked as both a haematologist and microbiologist. I'm in two writers' groups: Western Women Writers (who publish Poetrix. View my complete profile. A Snail's Eye View.
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Speculating about fiction: MFW and Aussiecon 4
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. MFW and Aussiecon 4. Almost every year for the last ten or more years, I've been attending the Melbourne Writers' Festival. I love going to sessions and listening to what the writers have to say - especially when it's about writing. (Can't say I'm as enthralled with all the political-type ones that seem to have been increasing in favour over the last few years.). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Speculating about fiction: More on reading . . .
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A blog about writing, editing and teaching - and life in general. More on reading . . . I've just finished Kirstyn McDermott's Madigan Mine. Since then I've started Hilary Mantel's Booker-prize winning novel Wolf Hall. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). And SuperNOVA. In 2004, I graduated from the inaugural Clarion South. View my complete profile. An Ordinary Girl's Guide to Life. A Snail's Eye View. Our PWE student blog. Miss Snark, the literary agent. The poem a week project. Con report: day 4: part 1.
