https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/Ljg6g7BAdQo&source=uds New Haim video!!! - Interesting piece on writing female characters and archetypes and the need to review both. - 10 creative women over 80 you should know. - 10 famous film scripts and what you can learn from them. - Listen to 15 literary icons reading their work! - And, is this the golden… Continue reading Friday Finds
Month: February 2014
Chic University
It's been obscenely hot in Brisbane the past couple of weeks, so it's kind of nice to check out autumn clothes and imagine I'll be able to wear them any time soon (hahahahahaha, ;__; ) This shoot titled chic university is, well, exactly that. There's not an outfit here I wouldn't wear plus, y'know,… Continue reading Chic University
Sunday Short: To the Girl Who Forgot Me by Mike Day
On the last night you were cryptic and withdrawn when I arrived outside the back gate of your real house – the one your parents lived in – in the early hours of the morning. I was drunk and riddled with anxiety as you led me through the steep garden. In your room we tried… Continue reading Sunday Short: To the Girl Who Forgot Me by Mike Day
A Book a Week in 2014: ‘Fairytales for WIlde Girls’ by Allyse Near (08/52)
Isola Wilde has six brothers made up of two ghosts, a fury, a mermaid, a faerie and a boy. Her reliance on them over the last six years has made her reclusive, but with the entry of a new boy in town and a dead girl in a bird cage, Isola's life takes a turn… Continue reading A Book a Week in 2014: ‘Fairytales for WIlde Girls’ by Allyse Near (08/52)
Friday Finds
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/XnRhPH5O5jA&source=uds It's a Vance Joy covering Adele kind of afternoon. - This video on the film restoration process at the Criterion Collection is totally fascinating and worth the watch if you're interested in the technicalities of cinema. - Henry Miller's 11 commandments of writing and daily creativity is pretty awesome too. - These 33 great… Continue reading Friday Finds
Ingrid Starnes Spring 2013
There's honestly not an outfit I wouldn't wear in New Zealand designer, Ingrid Starnes inspired Spring Collection. The colour palette is beautiful, the cuts alternating between sweet, simple silhouettes and angular, tailored skirts, jackets and pants. The line managing to be both exquisitely feminine and somehow firmly masculine all at once. It's pretty close… Continue reading Ingrid Starnes Spring 2013
Raise the Dead
Last October, I had a (very) short Halloween-themed story published on a napkin and distributed through cafés around Brisbane care of the rather exceptional Tiny Owl Workshop. I've been meaning to post it on here for quite a while but am prone to fits of failness. Anyway, here's Raise the Dead. Raise the Dead… Continue reading Raise the Dead
Sunday Short: Brisbane by Josephine Rowe
And what I’ll remember of this time is split vinyl and continental breakfasts, fights about who gets the passenger seat, a wallaby cracked over the head with the jack handle and none of us talking till Lismore even though we know she’s done the right thing.Josephine Rowe is an Australian flash fiction writer with such… Continue reading Sunday Short: Brisbane by Josephine Rowe
A Book a Week in 2014: ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn (07/52)
Nick and Amy's marriage is on the rocks. A combination of both losing their jobs, an uproot from city New York to rural Missouri and the death of Nick's mother have left their relationship stagnant and the pair of them unable to communicate with one another. When Amy goes missing on their five year wedding… Continue reading A Book a Week in 2014: ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn (07/52)
Friday Finds
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/3sDPSSmhUws&source=uds It's Valentines day! Enjoy one of my favourite love songs which is kind of not a love song at all. - This list of Wikipedia lists of Women, Ranked, is basically the best thing I've seen all day. - Harlan Ellison talks paying the writer (eff yes). - Tweeting While Literary: Joyce Carol… Continue reading Friday Finds
Sophie Overett 