Comments for Kill Your Darlings http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:22:57 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Review: AC Grayling’s Thinking of Answers by Paul Pickering http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/06/review-ac-graylings-thinking-of-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-2097 Paul Pickering Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:22:57 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1469#comment-2097 Tut, tut. What a pity that a quality commentator such as Gideon Haigh should make a throwaway remark that reveals an uncharacteristic sloppiness. In his piece on the state of biography Haigh notes that the Humanities Research Centre biography institute's website has not been updated for a year. True. But such a flip comment gives your readers an entirely distorted impression. The centrepiece of the institute's annual events is the Seymour Lecture in biography which, from this year, is hosted by the National Library of Australia. Crowds in Canberra grow form year to year. Other events have been subsumed into the program of a new National Centre for Biography that is linked to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. This important initiative goes from strength to strength hosting numerous events and sponsoring a monograph series. Moreover, the HRC's teaching program, which includes a special emphasis on biography, has never been healthier with nearly a dozen doctoral students completing biographical theses and a successful MA program in biography and society running since 2009. Perhaps this does not change the overall point of Gideon's piece but it does show that picking up the phone is still better than clicking a mouse. Tut, tut. What a pity that a quality commentator such as Gideon Haigh should make a throwaway remark that reveals an uncharacteristic sloppiness. In his piece on the state of biography Haigh notes that the Humanities Research Centre biography institute’s website has not been updated for a year. True. But such a flip comment gives your readers an entirely distorted impression. The centrepiece of the institute’s annual events is the Seymour Lecture in biography which, from this year, is hosted by the National Library of Australia. Crowds in Canberra grow form year to year. Other events have been subsumed into the program of a new National Centre for Biography that is linked to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. This important initiative goes from strength to strength hosting numerous events and sponsoring a monograph series. Moreover, the HRC’s teaching program, which includes a special emphasis on biography, has never been healthier with nearly a dozen doctoral students completing biographical theses and a successful MA program in biography and society running since 2009. Perhaps this does not change the overall point of Gideon’s piece but it does show that picking up the phone is still better than clicking a mouse.

]]> Comment on ‘Every now and then the city shook its soul out’: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin [review] by Estelle http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/every-now-and-then-the-city-shook-its-soul-out-colum-mccanns-let-the-great-world-spin-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2087 Estelle Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:01:18 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1565#comment-2087 Agree: the UK (Australian) cover made me think the book was about a French comedian. Totally inexplicable, I know. The US cover is beautiful, and connects a viewer with the book immediately. Anyone interested in more fun cover comparisons should read this article at The Millions: http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/judging-books-by-their-covers-u-s-vs-u-k.html Agree: the UK (Australian) cover made me think the book was about a French comedian. Totally inexplicable, I know. The US cover is beautiful, and connects a viewer with the book immediately.

Anyone interested in more fun cover comparisons should read this article at The Millions: http://www.themillions.com/2010/03/judging-books-by-their-covers-u-s-vs-u-k.html

]]> Comment on ‘Every now and then the city shook its soul out’: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin [review] by Mel http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/every-now-and-then-the-city-shook-its-soul-out-colum-mccanns-let-the-great-world-spin-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2086 Mel Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:37:36 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1565#comment-2086 My book club read this a while back, and one thing we commented on was the terrible cover design. Compare it to the beautiful <a href="http://www.symphonyspace.org/img/events/5938/McCANN_Let-Great-World.jpg" rel="nofollow">American edition</a>. My book club read this a while back, and one thing we commented on was the terrible cover design. Compare it to the beautiful American edition.

]]> Comment on Why the internet turned me on (to creative writing) by Andrew McMillen http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/why-the-internet-turned-me-on-to-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-2084 Andrew McMillen Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:42:27 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1528#comment-2084 This is a lovely post, Jo. Thanks for sharing. This is a lovely post, Jo. Thanks for sharing.

]]> Comment on Why the internet turned me on (to creative writing) by Learning to balance: Nicholas Carr’s ‘The Shallows’ (Atlantic) « Fancy Goods http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/why-the-internet-turned-me-on-to-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-2074 Learning to balance: Nicholas Carr’s ‘The Shallows’ (Atlantic) « Fancy Goods Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:47:00 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1528#comment-2074 [...] Readings newsletter editor and regular Bookseller+Publisher reviewer Jo Case on how the internet has supported her creative writing career [...] [...] Readings newsletter editor and regular Bookseller+Publisher reviewer Jo Case on how the internet has supported her creative writing career [...]

]]> Comment on Why the internet turned me on (to creative writing) by Jo http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/why-the-internet-turned-me-on-to-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-2073 Jo Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:57:59 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1528#comment-2073 Phill, I think it's okay for a seed of your story to have been published online - it's when your story has been published online in full that it's a problem. But I know of a lot of writer/bloggers who've developed stories that have then been published in lit journals and anthologies from the seed of a blog post. Ralph is right though - I wouldn't actually say 'this began as a blog post' when submitting somewhere. It's not really relevant, unless someone finds your blog post and asks you to develop it into a story or similar (in which case they already know!) Phill, I think it’s okay for a seed of your story to have been published online – it’s when your story has been published online in full that it’s a problem. But I know of a lot of writer/bloggers who’ve developed stories that have then been published in lit journals and anthologies from the seed of a blog post.

Ralph is right though – I wouldn’t actually say ‘this began as a blog post’ when submitting somewhere. It’s not really relevant, unless someone finds your blog post and asks you to develop it into a story or similar (in which case they already know!)

]]> Comment on Why the internet turned me on (to creative writing) by Ralph http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/why-the-internet-turned-me-on-to-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-2069 Ralph Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:55:13 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1528#comment-2069 I wouldn't think it's hard and fast Phill. But I think there's more chance of a blog comment or article finding print publication when independently 'discovered' by a journal, rather than the other way round, ie when a writer submits something along with the line 'oh by the way, this [or something in similar form] has already seen the light of day at such and such a blogspace...' I wouldn’t think it’s hard and fast Phill. But I think there’s more chance of a blog comment or article finding print publication when independently ‘discovered’ by a journal, rather than the other way round, ie when a writer submits something along with the line ‘oh by the way, this [or something in similar form] has already seen the light of day at such and such a blogspace…’

]]> Comment on Love from the Wheeler Centre by Estelle Tang http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/love-from-the-wheeler-centre/comment-page-1/#comment-2068 Estelle Tang Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:36:47 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1544#comment-2068 Jasmine and vanilla...what's not to like? Jasmine and vanilla…what’s not to like?

]]> Comment on Love from the Wheeler Centre by Wheeler Centre http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/love-from-the-wheeler-centre/comment-page-1/#comment-2066 Wheeler Centre Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:18:04 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1544#comment-2066 We enjoyed the excerpt and wish more literary careers included "a litre of Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion". We enjoyed the excerpt and wish more literary careers included “a litre of Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion”.

]]> Comment on Why the internet turned me on (to creative writing) by Comment July Challenge, Week 1 Wrap-Up | Little Girl With A Big Pen http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2010/07/why-the-internet-turned-me-on-to-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-2065 Comment July Challenge, Week 1 Wrap-Up | Little Girl With A Big Pen Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:48:46 +0000 http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/?p=1528#comment-2065 [...] 3. Megan Burke’s “What We Can Learn From Mia Freedman” on Literary Life 4. Jo Case’s “Why The Internet Turned Me On (To Creative Writing)” on Kill Your Darli... 5. Q & A Monday with Lisa Dempster on [...] [...] 3. Megan Burke’s “What We Can Learn From Mia Freedman” on Literary Life 4. Jo Case’s “Why The Internet Turned Me On (To Creative Writing)” on Kill Your Darli… 5. Q & A Monday with Lisa Dempster on [...]

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