Talking theatre: short plays, short stories, ten minutes at a time...

The lovely Rowena from ROR has invited me to talk about playwrighting vs fiction.

"I should emphasise here that I’m discussing short plays as opposed to feature length, so it might be more applicable to explore short plays (ten minutes) versus short stories.  What are the differences?" 

Read the full article here

Ausmusic Month...

Finally, I get to post something to do with music!  My first music post for the month and I will be highlighting Australian music in line with Triple J’s Ausmusic month.

It was with sad irony that we lost James Freud, front man for Models to suicide on 4^th November, 2010.  Models, an alternative rock band had a great influence on the Australian music scene in the late seventies/eighties.  So while I’m paying tribute to Ausmusic month and celebrating great Australian music this decade, it’s still fair to mention the impact our local bands have had on Australian music regardless of their era.  Rest in peace James ♥

The song I’m going to kick off with this month is from the featured artist on Triple J’s unearthed.  Lanie Lane – she is magnificent.  Have a listen, check out the article and click here for a free mp3 download of her single.

Midnight rambler dreading another 5.30am start...

WHAT HAPPENED on the way to…

There were a few things I wanted to blog about earlier this week and already it’s the end of week one into November – what the…

Between working and writing and subbing and stuff, the week has got away on me.  So here is a brief rundown of what I’ve been doing besides working in that other job that pays the bills.

·    Attending an awesome Masterclass at the QWC with the Master himself Simon Higgins on writing good YA.  But essentially it came down to just really great tips on good writing, regardless of the genre you write in.  I met some great people on the day and came away much more enlightened than when I arrived;

·    Applied for a Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting course for 2011 with AFTRS – what made me think I could get my application in good form with everything else that was going on around me in a week, I have no idea – doh!

·     And in addition to the above idiocy I wrote a short story and subbed two – one has since been rejected but at least it was a nice prompt reply and I’m not kept waiting in suspense.

And I want to write about Triple J’s Ausmusic month but I will post that tomorrow Inshallah

Midnight rambler dreading the thought of a 5.30am start tomorrow…