RichieB

plotting your novel maybe difficult, but have you ever tried brushing your dog's teeth (on vet's orders) when they wanna perpetually chomp on the toothbrush? That's tough
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we had several excellent meetings with producers over the weekend at the Melbourne International Film Festival's 37ºSouth Market industry meet n greet.
Is there anything quite so unnatural as an introverted writer pitching their project to financiers? Maybe not - but we did good!
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few things will outlast the apocalypse quite like my mother feeling duty bound to tell me: "you need to have a haircut"

specific 21st century #dogdad feeling when you've stocked up at the pet store on various kinds of treats/medicines/gourmet dogfood and then getting home to realise all you've got in the cupboard by way of human dinner is baked beans.

Microsoft Predicts These Jobs Are Safe From AI If you want to work with dead bodies, AI probably won't steal your career.

defs something weirdly poetic about this article providing (predictable) confirmation that ai is gonna kill a lot of my writing work, and then tacitly recommending i get a job in embalming
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Book review: Ghost Cities, Siang Lu A playful and metafictional novel about storytelling, Chinese history and contemporary society.

my review of the 2025 Miles Franklin award winning 'Ghost Cities' - "an intricate tapestry of narratives – stories within stories about storytelling – that will beguile and reward those willing to engage with its patterns, shapes and form"
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Book review: Under a Rock, Chris Stein Under a Rock is a fascinating if enigmatic memoir from Blondie's guitarist and co-founder, and romantic and songwriting partner of Deborah Harry.

read my review of Blondie guitarist Chris Stein's memoir: capable of being both incisive and coolly enigmatic, as perhaps befits this legendary band #rock #writingcommunity #bookreview #DebbieHarry #Punk www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews...

nothing brings on a twinge of the 'ol existential angst about the ravages of time like updating your driver's license photo.

Book review: I want everything, Dominic Amerena A debut that tracks authorship and authenticity and the vagaries of the writing life.

my review of the new book "I Want Everything" by Dominic Amerena - to me, more than just a literary satire, but a bleakly funny yet humane portrayal of the complex desire to transcend the painful or mundane limitations of one’s own identity
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my writing goal today is trying to attain the focus and discipline of Arby when she eats (pet-friendly) gelato
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just posted something to LinkedIn promoting my work, so naturally i cringed so hard i needed to lie for a bit on a foam roller
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really thrilled to be writer/creator on this new tv project with support from Screen Australia; "Dadhood" is a comedy-drama which casts a critical yet compassionate eye over some of the juicier areas of today's discourse: male entitlement, pronatalism, and the need-to-breed

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how i imagine the payroll guy who consistently refuses to pay my invoices on time
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YouTube video by Al Campbell IT'S KEVIN Amish Sex Pistols

in these dark times, it's more important than ever to comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable, so here's Kevin Eldon and Matt Berry as Amish Sex Pistols.

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me going off to work on Monday feeling fresh n' chipper after a nice weekend, then turning into a monster about lunchtime
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in these divisive times, i think we should come together and agree the shortened version of "favourite" should be spelled "fave" not "fav"
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trying to embrace the sending of reminders to pay my invoices as a “creative writing challenge” #amwriting #writingcommunity

ha, yeah it's a brave new world. But kind of understandable i guess with the status of various platforms being in flux. As long as they don't start using Nextdoor ... that'd be less Waters and more Lynchian... ;)

just posted something to LinkedIn promoting my work, so naturally i cringed so hard i needed to lie for a bit on a foam roller
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so thrilled to be the writer of the film "If/When" which had its cast and crew screening last week. Comprised of intricate yet spectacular stop-motion animation, it took four years to realise this time-jumping story of a love that defies the universe
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writing tip: if you need some inspo to write some caustic, eccentric and confrontational dialogue, just search a Facebook local community page for threads about bin night, cats, or stolen deliveries
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always strangely poignant yet inspiring watching my computer struggle to restore all the tabs from the previous day, like you go girl
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woke up this morning with a dose of imposter syndrome, but I dunno, worrying now if I've truly earned it
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caught this movie just then & it was all-round great: surreal, smart, beautifully performed; esp liked the mordant representation of a writer using details from someone else's real life to serve their creative ambitions, raising twisty questions of appropriation and identity
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Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

"Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR"

my printer is somehow the perfect adjunct to the angst of writing. Alternates between passively-aggressively refusing to work - and, when coaxed into printing, angrily spitting out pages as if disgusted with the task
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my colleagues and i have submitted our "screen bible" for the tv series we've developed as per the funding arrangement, and we're hoping someone swears on it one day
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if you are feeling overwhelmed with work on your novel/script/WIP today, put it in perspective by remembering it's not as painfully tortuous as writing a dating profile
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Absolutely unbelievable ad in the community theater playbill.