Exercises
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“Show Train”
A Josip Novakovich exercise in scene development. Task: Describe a train ride… Objective: To show the experience of travel. Novakovich, Josip. Fiction Writer’s Workshop (p. 41). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Once a year, for few days in August, they’d open the Exhibition Line, and you could take the train right into the Show. The Continue reading
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Workplaces #2: “Labourers for the Kill Floor”
Warning: explicit and graphic detail – meat processing. This is the second of two scene development exercises: The Task: Describe places where you have worked …Describe how the people handle their tools and machines. Objective: To concentrate on the details and energy of a workplace. Workplaces make perfect story setups because they make it easy for you Continue reading
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Workplaces #1: “Civil Dawn”
The Task: Describe places where you have worked …Describe how the people handle their tools and machines. Objective: To concentrate on the details and energy of a workplace. Workplaces make perfect story setups because they make it easy for you to integrate the place and the character. People shape the place, the places shape the Continue reading
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“Three Places: 1965”
The Task: “Describe three places you have been. Don’t worry about pretty words; mention the important and some unimportant details you remember.” Novakovich, Josip. Fiction Writer’s Workshop (p. 40). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. “Braeside” 1965 There were only two seasons in Far Western Queensland’s Channel Country when Christy and his father went on to Continue reading
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“Little Jim and Old Harry”
A Josip Novakovich exercise in describing the setting for an event connected to an item in a home in which I grew up. The item I’ve selected is a Jarvis Walker ‘Little Jim’ fishing rod. For readers not familiar with fishing Queensland’s Gold Coast in the late 1950s, Jarvis Walker was an Australian fishing rod Continue reading
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An Australian post-lawyer reclaiming creative space and delving into speculative fiction after too long an absence.
Sunburnt Speculations 