Month: July 2008
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Scottish Book Trust
The workshop day at The Scottish Book Trust was great! On what must have been one of the hottest days of the year so far, Anne Donovan read excerpts and talked about her favourite short stories, then we split into groups for some mini-workshops. There were basically 4 different ones throughout the day, and everyone…
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Workshop and Cake…. what’s not to like
Interesting Edinburgh event on 26th July. Particularly interested in the Radio workshop and the cake (of course) : Scottish Book Trust will be hosting an afternoon of events featuring the award-winning writer Anne Donovan (winner of an SAC Book Award and short-listed for the Orange Prize for her first novel, Buddha Da) and exploring the…
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The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes was on tv yesterday – I never get tired of watching that film – sublime. Other news : still not entirely convinced this is real yet…. maybe if I type it, it’ll disappear in a puff of smoke and I will know it was only a (Red Shoes-type) dream…. I’m going to…
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Ready to Meet the World…… maybe
I’ve been getting ready to workshop my feature comedy this Friday, and it got me thinking about that old adage about writers feeling precious about their work. Nobody likes to get told their work isn’t up to scratch, but as long as the comments are constructive, I generally don’t feel the burn when anyone says…
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Ballerina Ballroom
Frankly this all sounded too delicious to be true…… but it is. Links at the end of the info : “A while ago, on an impulse, a quixotic seizure, Tilda Swinton rented a ballroom in an old Victorian stone building in Nairn in the North East of Scotland, a seaside town where Chaplin used to…
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Sharps
Just got an email from fellow MA classmate Ronnie. As previously mentioned, he’d got through to the first stage of the BBC Writers Room ‘Sharps’ competition, swished off to a workshop in London and then had to draft a quick short piece for consideration. He’s just found out that he’s through to the final 8…
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Unbeautiful
“The first question I ask when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there is no reason.” John Cage
mandy lee 