In preparation for the Emerging Writers Festival, Melbourne radio 3RRR will host a discussion among festival people (including me) on their retro-titled show Max Headroom.
For people a long way from the Paris End of Collins Street, you’ll be able to stream the show directly from the 3RRR web site.
The show will broadcast on Thursday 8th [...]

Who better to provide help with writing a synopsis than a bloke who, despite his widely accepted genius, has still been dead for 53 years?

The title of this post is not just a time, it’s also a job. Twenty entries make up the long list in the Emerging Writers Festival Reading Room Competition. I have copies of each and my job is to take those twenty and reduce them to ten. In the best reality TV style, it’s time [...]

When I first started blogging the creation of this novel, I plucked a name out of thin air to describe it: The End Credits. I have no idea where it came from or why I thought it would apply to the story.
It didn’t last long and I immediately began casting around for a more appropriate [...]

Writing a novel is not easy, anyone will tell you that for free. But what those same people might not know is that, compared to the synopsis, a novel is a breeze.
This is my second crack at a synopsis and this one is even harder than the first. Not only do I know the story [...]

This year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival is being held 9 – 11 May in Melbourne. A full program will be released this Friday, but in the lead up to the festival, I’ll be judging entries to the associated Reading Room competition.
The competition calls for entries responding to a stimulus image that you can see on this [...]