Stories as long-form YouTube content, or Shorts, or audio-only, or as music, are still stories. My YouTube channel is a place for quick audience reaction and experimentation.
DRIVE Volume 2 tells the story of a car race as a high-energy dance music remix.
StudioPracticeforWriters.com has been launched, and will be working in partnership with Leviathan Publishing.
I created SPW because I’ve often wondered how writers, myself included, might benefit from the structure of a studio. I like the idealised aspects of it: a community in which the artist is not working alone, but working alongside peers, in apprenticeship with masters, and providing mentoring when asked. I’m captivated by how the creators of physical art like painters and sculptors can locate their art in time and space in a way a writer does not have to. I feel comforted in the thought these creators need to find a place to go, out of logistics and necessity, to create their art. To me, romanticising it, as I know I am, it means their art is anchored, moved from the ephemera of the possible to the actualised of the physical. For many creative people, a studio is a sacred (internally quiet) place, where an inspired way of being meets a mechanical act of creating.
I created StudioPracticeForWriters.com for these reasons and to hold studio practice style writing groups and classes. News on the SFW resources, courses and activities coming soon.
I’m excited to be participating on the Currents and Trends panel at theNational Writers’ Conference, part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, this year. We’ll be discussing the current literary landscape, and offering advice, observations and insights. Please say hello if you’ll be there. When and where: Sunday 14 September, 4:15PM, Wheeler Centre, State Library of Victoria. https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/nwc-currents-and-trends
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