Category Archive: Writing

Aug 17

BOOK REVIEW: Day Watch – Sergei Lukyanenko (Miramax Books)

My rating: 4 of 5 stars In the beginning of this book, having been so used to the primary protagonist of the previous novel, Anton Gorodetsky, it took me a little while to work out what was going on. I had no idea who this Alisa Donnikova was or why she was important. Or why …

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Jul 13

The art of persuasion… for writers and readers (or consumers)

Persuading people is an art. Anybody who has studied argument-writing knows this. And it is what amused me about logging into the ABC website and seeing this: If you’re like me, and you don’t consume popular television at all (yeah yeah, oh the gasp, shock blah blah), then you could be forgiven for thinking – …

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Jun 06

[Book Review] RealmShift, by Alan Baxter (independent)

Kudos to Alan for an interesting and gripping dark fantasy. Nice work. RealmShift is the first of Alan Baxter‘s novel-length works that I have read. Having previously published his short fiction, I knew first-hand how talented he is. RealmShift confirmed to me that his abilities in long fiction are equally tight. Not generally a big …

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Jun 01

On corporate conversations: who is engaging whom? And how?

What stories is your business or organisation telling? And who is telling it? There were so damn many ways I could have moved on from the last post I wrote, that it took me a little while to get my head around it. Well, actually, not too long considering I wrote this the very next …

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May 26

On professional ethics

An exploration of what professional ethics is and what happens when it’s corrupt. The first issue we come to, is what is professional ethics, and how is it divorced from (or is it divorced from) morality. The professional, in engaging in his or her work, does so within the bounds of certain ethical guidelines. As …

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