by Natasha | Dec 10, 2024 | Critical Writing, Writing
Look Who’s Morphing is Tom Cho’s debut novel. Published in 2009 by Giramondo Publishing in Australia, it places Cho in the bosom of postmodern literature. A book of eighteen short stories, touching on themes of identity, popular culture, nostalgia versus technology...
by Natasha | Dec 10, 2024 | Creative Writing, Writing
Be willing to destroy the very idea that you are original. What good will it do to lay there, clutching at old bones? – Camel Be courageous. Flaunt the authority of copyright oppression. How will anyone be able to tell if it’s theirs or yours once you’ve gone...
by Natasha | Nov 26, 2024 | Creative Writing, Writing
Preface Have you got your horse ready too? That’s the way. Right! We’re all ready to go galloping so that we can have some music. Let’s tell Mr Music that we’re ready too. Ready please Mr Music. Oh come with us and gallop, and gallop, and gallop. Oh come with us...
by Natasha | Nov 13, 2024 | Critical Writing, Writing
Through the process of our reflective imaginations we make stuff up, and the stuff we make up is somehow germinated by the text(s) of the world. How do you think this connects to the evocative comment of Ben Okri’s revisionary Don Quixote, when he says in Okri’s story...
by Natasha | Nov 6, 2024 | Writing
Morning birds sang their cacophony. Her heavy blinds stirred slightly; nothing could keep out the intense morning light. Mid-spring sunshine sharpened the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a blue finger-print of shadow...