For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week? I'm taking another short break from my redrafting to whip a short story into shape, which I'm quite looking forward to. It's a story I've really loved for a long time but never quite got around to massaging into… Continue reading Sunday Circle (or what I’m writing this week)
Month: March 2016
Friday Finds
'Chapters and early versions appeared in Les Temps modernes through 1948; the full tome came out in 1949. It was greeted with shock. This freethinking lady existentialist was already considered a disturbing figure, with her open relationship, her childlessness and her godlessness. Now here was a book filled with descriptions of women’s sexual experience, including a chapter on lesbianism. Even her… Continue reading Friday Finds
Canberra, Noted
I spent the bulk of the weekend in Canberra for Noted, an exciting little festival with a great line-up of emerging artists and an interesting approach in marrying art and the written word. I had a pretty darn great time thanks to the wonderful Noted Team and to the engaged and talented participants in my… Continue reading Canberra, Noted
Sunday Circle (or what I’m writing this week)
For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week? Man, you remember how I was talking about re-writing an opening for my Big Literary Novel two weeks ago? Turns out the best way to do it is on a four hour train ride from Sydney to Canberra. I've… Continue reading Sunday Circle (or what I’m writing this week)
Short Term 12 (2013)
There are serious tropes when it comes to YA fiction about misaligned and mistreated youth. Kids with dark backgrounds and unsettling and unwelcoming homes. Which is why it's interesting to watch a movie like Short Term 12 where the perspective doesn't just shift to those on the other side of authority, but also acts as a follow up… Continue reading Short Term 12 (2013)
Creative Habitats
It rained most of the weekend here, and it made for a creatively satisfying couple of days. I always work best in poorer weather, even when that poorer weather gives Queensland’s staple humidity a sort of open mouthed, panting edge to it. 'Course, the fact alone that it rained was a rarity, and if I only… Continue reading Creative Habitats
Nai Chi Chi SS 2013
A little bit of a throwback to the 2013 Spring Summer lines, but man, do I love this collection from Nai Nai Chi. It's just so cute. I really love the unusual cuts on the jackets too and the darn sweet knits. I basically want it all. Check out the full collection here.
Sunday Circle (or what I’m working on this week)
For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week? While I am still doing rewrites this week, they're taking a bit of a backseat to, well, work-work. I'm finishing off developing the content and structure for the podcasting workshop I'm teaching at Noted Festival next weekend and choosing… Continue reading Sunday Circle (or what I’m working on this week)
An Education
Brooklyn was, hands down, one of my favourite movies of last year. It's a brilliantly scripted, directed and acted coming-of-age film about a young woman leaving her home country of Ireland for America in the 1950s and finding herself caught between two worlds. A few days after I saw it at the cinema, I rewatched An Education for about… Continue reading An Education
The Oscars Project: 15th Academy Awards
The total cinema domination of World War II was, by this point, basically all encompassing. There were so few films that deviated from the war narrative that the ones that did seemed to almost universally be genre films - from Westerns to science fiction. It's a fascinating feat. I can't think of another moment in history… Continue reading The Oscars Project: 15th Academy Awards
Sophie Overett 