Month: August 2010
Further to yesterday: and if anyone has a go at you for “just” mummy-blogging, personal-blogging etc…
…just remember Robert McKee’s words: Let’s say that this morning our storyteller tells her friends the story of “How I Put My Kids on the School Bus.” Like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, she hooks everyone’s attention. She draws them into her spell, holding them slack-jawed over their coffee cups. She spins her tale, building them up,…
5 steps to blogging success: thoughts inspired from the Melbourne Writers’ Festival
Federation Square, setting of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival* Gauging from the audience questions (both during, and those coming people up to me afterwards) at our ‘Author as Brand’ session yesterday, it seems this subject is a hot one. I’m not surprised. I suppose it goes back to that old catch-22: to get a publisher,…
If you build it…
The builder turns in uncertain angles, scuffing the ball of his foot, as he talks on his mobile. The phone is crushed into one ear, his finger jammed into another, as he struggles to hear the voice on the other end over the sound of drilling. As he turns, the sunlight bounces off his silver-and-yellow…
