Tragedy, comedy, and dealing with feedback on your work. Here’s some different things I’ve been thinking a lot about this past month. Maybe there’s something here to interest you too?
DIFFERENT THINGS – JULY 2020
The myth of will power, and the myth of the unencumbered woman. Here’s some different things I’ve been thinking a lot about this past month. Maybe there’s something here to interest you too?
DIFFERENT THINGS – JUNE 2020
Changing times, the need for change, creative crashing. June seems to have flown by, so a bit late with this one! Here’s some different things I’ve been thinking a lot about this past month. Maybe there’s something here to interest you too?
DIFFERENT THINGS – MAY 2020
Juggling projects, juggling murder, murdering projects. It’s been a pretty scattered time of late, but I’ve tried to pull together some different things I’ve been thinking a lot about this past month. Maybe there’s something here to interest you too? TELEVISION TELEVISION TELEVISION Ok, so I know everyone is watching inordinate amounts of television of […]
DIFFERENT THINGS – APRIL 2020
Mermen, shopping, eating, hauntings, dejection. Here’s some different things I’ve been thinking a lot about this past month. Maybe there’s something here to interest you too? IT CAME FROM THE DEEP BY MARIA LEWIS As much of a book hoarder as I am, I don’t think I’ve finished reading a whole book in months, let […]
DIFFERENT THINGS – MARCH 2020
I don’t post nearly enough. Let’s see how long I can last doing this, seriously the easiest, most straightforward thing I can commit to… Here’s some different things I’ve been thinking quite a lot about this past month in particular. Maybe there’s something here to interest you too. PLANTERINA – I came across Amanda Switzer […]
WHAT I WROTE THIS YEAR – 2019
It’s felt like a very long year! While it started off a little slow, it ran up into a big and tiring finish. There’s been lots of great stuff going on professionally, loads of development work and a couple of wins too, with some Story Development funding from Screen Australia (the application for which is […]
How To Write Movies: Mazin and Arndt’s Screenwriting Philosophies
I’ve spent a lot of time recently recommending a couple of fantastic resources to anyone and everyone I know in the middle of slogging it out on a screen story. The below two story lectures are fantastic for lots of reasons, but key to their impact is that they’re incredibly useful, craft-focused overviews for anyone […]
100 Films for a 10 Day Film Challenge
A few months ago, a friend tagged me in one of those ’10 day film challenge’ things on Facebook, where you’re meant to share a picture of your ten favourite films over ten days. They’re fun, but for people like me, a little daunting. I basically love film lists (and book lists, and art lists…), […]
What I Wrote This Year – 2018
A look back on my main writing achievements for 2018.
How Do You ‘Find Your Voice’ As A Writer?
On the destructive myth of a writer’s ‘voice’, and what ‘finding your voice’ actually means.
Speed Pitching! Things To Consider
The delightful Holly Lyons, screenwriting lecturer at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and maven behind script assessment service Screenwriting Scriptease, invited me along last week to a speed pitching session for her screenwriting students. Along with some fellow industry peeps, we lined ourselves up for an onslaught of pitches from emerging writers and filmmakers […]
