I was relatively late to embrace podcasts. I didn't really get into the medium until listening to Serial back in 2014, but since then I've fallen pretty in love with the form. From other true crime podcasts (Criminal; Sword and Scales) to historical (You Must Remember This; What You Missed in History Class) to the fantastic (Lore; Welcome to Nightvale) to… Continue reading Five Tips for Creating (and maintaining) a Podcast
Month: September 2016
Friday Finds
She could take a stupid problem (men’s concerns about women’s skirts), frame it in the stupidest way possible (“Are Girls’ Knees Immoral?”), and spin gold, beginning by pointing out how odd it is that people can be scandalized by women’s knees on the street but not much more flesh on a beach, and then concluding,… Continue reading Friday Finds
Oscars Year 20
Somehow in the three years since starting this project, I've watched twenty years worth of Oscars contenders. It's been such a fascinating process, and one that's really opened my eyes to the influences and innovations of cinema, and the journey it's made since the first Academy Award was handed out in 1929. The 20th Academy Awards… Continue reading Oscars Year 20
Magical Places
One of the projects I don't talk a whole lot about on this blog is a children's graphic novel that I've been working on for quite a while. I love comics generally (in case you couldn't tell), and have a particular love for stand alone stories that seek to explore complex themes with younger characters… Continue reading Magical Places
Awards, Residencies & Novelettes
I haven't blogged a whole lot over the last couple of weeks. This has been for a whole host of reasons, from preparing to chair panels at Brisbane Writers Festival, to illness, to completing a copywriting job, through to celebrating some pretty damn exciting writing news. Which, hey! Let's talk about! For starters, I've been… Continue reading Awards, Residencies & Novelettes
Seven (Nine) Sentences, Seven Pages: They Built Us Out of Buried Things
There's a writing meme travelling around at the moment about posting seven sentences from the seventh page of your WIP, and I figured it was a good opportunity to post a little excerpt from my novelette which is coming out next month! Also since I am terrible, I'm really posting nine sentences. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And hey! I'd love… Continue reading Seven (Nine) Sentences, Seven Pages: They Built Us Out of Buried Things
Sunday Circle: what I’m writing this week
For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week I've made a lot of progress this week on my sci-fi screenplay and am hoping to get this current draft finished this week so that I can send it off for feedback from a beta reader. Once that's in the… Continue reading Sunday Circle: what I’m writing this week
Friday Finds
In many villages, when a person died, they would be cooked and consumed. It was an act of love and grief. As one medical researcher described, "If the body was buried it was eaten by worms; if it was placed on a platform it was eaten by maggots; the Fore believed it was much better… Continue reading Friday Finds
Lauren Winter FW 2016
It's been a while since I did a fashion post on this blog, but I couldn't resist the clean lines and tones of Portland designer, Laura Winter's new Fall Winter collection. It's somehow both innovative and simple, with a rich and unexpected palette of denim blues, rust and black and white. It's, all in all,… Continue reading Lauren Winter FW 2016
Friday Finds
To achieve today’s desirable veneer of innocence, the industry recommends a practice of constant, self-diagnostic work. This is not new, of course. “We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism,” Donna Haraway wrote in “A Cyborg Manifesto,” her classic feminist essay, first published three decades ago. Haraway imagined technology as a… Continue reading Friday Finds
