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Standing at the top of the stairs, I feel like I’ve walked through the pages of a well-read, dog-eared copy of The Great Gatsby. The parties have long since finished, the drunken gaiety is gone, and all that is left is Rone’s darkly discarded invention.
Read MoreRenee Ruin is one of those rare people you meet every now and then who sparkle and glitter in the pale moonlight. They just seem to make everything around them shine a little bit brighter. As a prolific creative, she always seems to be working on something amazing. Whether it’s unapologetically sharing her heart and soul through her poetry or interviewing strange and unusual creatures for her blog…
Read MoreWhen I was a young Gothling, before Punk kicked in, Lydia Deetz was my hero. And I’ve always loved Michael Keaton. That man is just amazing. In fact the whole cast of Beetlejuice is brilliant. So you can imagine how damn excited I was to hear that there’s currently a ‘making of Beetlejuice’ documentary in the works.
Read MoreWhen I was a small child growing up in New Zealand, one thing I always looked forward to was Guy Fawkes Night. This was because I knew we had a substantial stash of fireworks …
Read MoreThe Grub Street bookshop, located in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy (one of Melbourne’s favourite inner northern suburbs) is one of those cosy local bookstores that you instantly fall in love with. Shelves packed high with second hand books, and the delicious smell of well-worn paper and ink in the air. You could go hog-wild in there …
Read MoreI first stumbled across Kelly Campbell Berry’s literary artworks quite by wonderful accident, having been looking for an image to accompany an article I was writing about bringing written characters to life. I had fallen down the proverbial internet rabbit hole and somehow ended up in the land of book sculpture…
Read MoreFor a character to be truly great you need to understand their motivations, their reactions, their place in the world and how they behave within this world, and also how that world responds around them. So here are my hints for creating a wonderful, enlivening and engaging character.
Read MoreSomewhere over the rainbow, in the land of Oz, a jewellery maker works deep into the night creating the most amazing silver, shiny things. Yet it wasn’t always so, and it has only been in the last couple of years that Alana of Cut Off Your Hands Jewellery has made creating things from metal her life. Sounds pretty darn cool right?
Read MoreI mean imagine you're Jesus. It's Friday, and you might have even been looking forward to the weekend, but that's all over now. It's C-day and you have to carry this heavy wooden cross through some desert to an undisclosed location ...
Read MoreI’ve been writing books… well stories… OK trying to finish writing stories since I was nine years old. I’m now just shy of 42… I won’t say how shy, but that’s a nice round number. I also say trying to finish because I find the starting of the process the easiest part, the middle can be a bit of a muddle and getting all the way to the end… that’s the pickle really.
Read MoreLet’s face it doing what you love is not always easy. Most of the time it’s a challenging mistress and you end up sacrificing a heck of a lot more than you ever thought you would. Any spare time or money you may have had goes out the window, and you will probably be left wondering if you’ve become some kind of socially inept Gollum, cutting yourself off from the world so that you can devote all your time to your precious (the answer is yes, yes you have – but let’s say you’re a loveable Gollum).
Read MoreEvery now and you get access to something so cool, something so amazing and something so brilliant that it just smacks you in the face and says ‘yes I’m freakin’ awesome, deal with me!’. That’s how I felt this morning when I awoke to an internet nerdstorm of spatial proportions. So what is it this morning tide that has me all aflutter?
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