May 20
Writers, pay attention to real life. It’s better than any school you’d attend. I say this for a couple of reasons. The first is that basing characters on quirks of real people is the best way to make believable characters. But the second is because this week I’ve seen some things going on around me …
Permanent link to this article: http://biodagar.com/2011/05/better-than-fiction/
Dec 13
Today I read on a friend’s Facebook status that UniLife, the student magazine at the University of South Australia (formerly Entropy) has died. This is more significant than you might think. For those of you who don’t know, I got my leg-up in music journalism writing for Entropy back at the beginning of the century. …
Permanent link to this article: http://biodagar.com/2009/12/times-move-on-opportunities-die-rip-entropy/
Jul 22
In the past few months, as I have been engaged in far more editing of other music journalists, than I have been in my own journalism (something which a big part of me rues slightly), I’ve realised just how poorly skilled are most of those who aspire to the task. This is a brief blog …
Permanent link to this article: http://biodagar.com/2009/07/aspiring-music-journalists-think-criticism-beware-adjectives/
Jul 18
Well, you’ve seen me religiously adding posts to this blog in an effort to re-energise it of late. Partly this has been because I want to keep doing some creative and personal writing, partly to keep my portfolio up to date, and partly because I worked out how to schedule posts. After like two years …
Permanent link to this article: http://biodagar.com/2009/07/nablopomo-sucked-in-i-joined/
Jul 14
I coined a new phrase last weekend, which I feel is quite apt for most writers at some point. It is writer’s indigestion. Definition of writer’s indigestion: The feeling one gets, on completion of a draft or piece of writing, that it hasn’t been done as well as it could have been. Such a piece …
Permanent link to this article: http://biodagar.com/2009/07/phrase-of-the-month-writers-indigestion-and-its-definition/
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