Kill Your Darlings
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Auckland Writers’ Festival
I’m a subscriber of an online literary magazine, Kill You Darlings. They’ve been around since 2009 and I admit I don’t read as many articles as I probably should. What I do pay attention to are the excellent competitions. One I recently entered was to win tickets to the Auckland Writers Festival 12-17 May 2020.…
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Baby Steps vs. Leaps of Faith
I’m not going to talk about the fact that today is Valetine’s Day and I am not seeing anyone. I’ve recently started attending a Meet-Up group called Abundant Artists. The purpose is to get together with other local artists, predominantly working in visual art, but there are some performers too, and discuss what you’re struggling…
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Radio Silence
It’s been two months since I last posted. That sounds like what you’re supposed to say at confession: ‘It’s been two months since my last confession.’ I’ve had a pretty full on time since then, some of my own creation and some outside of my control. I’ve managed to achieve two important creative goals that I set myself.…
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Sometimes it just doesn’t work
Last month I wrote a super angry poem for my poetry group. It was confused and ranty and not very good. I can look at it now and see that. I had massaged it so that I could keep a couple of lines I was really enamoured of, at the expense of content. The group was…
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Watching Movies: Harry Potter is gay?!
One of the great things about Mondays is that it’s cheap movie day at the Cinema Nova in Carlton, Melbourne. To celebrate this fact I took myself to see ‘Kill Your Darlings’ yesterday. This film, directed by John Krokidas, is the story of the murder of David Kammera by Lucien Carr in New York in…
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