Archive for April, 2011

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part four

By ‘up the ante’ do you mean ‘increase the tension’ or ‘make it seem more plausible’? Because divulging gross details for the sake of tension usually comes off as gratuitously shocking, but your details make your characters seem more real. … I probably do mean gratuitously shocking though, in that case, since the tension I’m talking [ READ MORE ]

Interview Fail

So, I flat-out failed to publish the rest of my interview with Ronnie Scott over Easter. Frankly: I was indulging in too much pot all weekend, so I pretty much hybernated in my flat and tried to finish reading Power Without Glory, which I also failed at. Power Without Glory is really long, and dense, and [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part three

I hope somebody recognises your talent for abstract temporal-spatial theory, because I have no idea what you’re talking about. I heard recently that during experiments with the Large Hadron Collider they had discovered that particles inside atoms will occasionally disappear, inspiring speculation about parallel universes. Is this what you’re into – it’s interesting stuff, but [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part two

Your narrative stories are often about boys meeting boys: young homosexuals’ first awkward attempts at flirting with each other. You are otherwise not overt about your homosexuality in your public life. Is fiction a place where you can parse your sexuality? … I am pretty freaking gay in public life. I am a red hot mess [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part one

Ronnie Scott: is 23; moved to Melbourne from Brisbane in 2004, leaving behind a community-radio breakfast program and bringing with him the first slim issues of The Lifted Brow: Bi-annual attack journal, which he still publishes and is now sometimes massive; is doing a PhD in creative writing; has been Associate Director of National Young [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Intro

Over Easter I’m going to publish my interview with Ronnie Scott, which I had the fortune to conduct for Wet Ink, followed by one of Ronnie’s short stories, ‘Together Now, Very Minor’, a wonderful piece about the relationships we form on hallucinogens, which then dissipate into reality. Writing about tripping is like writing about dancing or [ READ MORE ]

Melodica Dissidence

I find it interesting how we use our Twitter bios to communicate our identities to one another. We need labels in order to understand who we are, and the 160-character limit means we tend to cram these labels in, dropping ‘and’ from our lists to leave more space or, if you’re an internet marketer and [ READ MORE ]

If:book Essay: You’re the Voice

If:book Australia is a think-and-do tank dedicated to promoting ‘new forms of digital literature’ and exploring ‘ways to boost connections between writers and audiences’, which is more exciting than I can fully express. They are associated with the Institute for the Future of the Book in New York, and if:book London, and are based at Queensland Writers’ [ READ MORE ]

In-flight Reading: Increasing the conservative dilemma

In which my in-flight jottings descend into a diatribe against ‘realistic’ conservatives everywhere before prolapsing into metaphor at my keyboard and emerging, scathed, as the ill-thought-out ramblings of an idealistic progressive. .. I’ve been reading a new magazine on the plane again and I found this new phrase I love: ‘the conservative dilemma’. The magazine is [ READ MORE ]

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