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Classic tales tell of the old ones, and how they lived and died. We identify, live and die with them, then reflect on our own lives, richer for the learning. Closer to home, we create our own theatre, improvised. The skits play out in comedy our most brutish characters, spiteful…
Tragedy plus time equals comedy. —Steve Allen The bipolar condition describes the fate of humans gifted with the capacity for pleasure and pain, good and evil, ecstasy and agony. If every life is a storyline, then we have to ask, why that story? Can it be told, even described in…
“Every single rule can and should be broken when necessary.” – conference presenter Helen Moffett, after George Orwell Earlier this year I attended the national conference of the Creative Nonfiction Collective, held in Victoria. Inspiring presentations, reading and discussions left me both humble, amid such talent, and motivated to improve…
It was bad enough that the chorus of successful writers at the conference cheered in unison for the archetypal story formula, heroic character arc, invisible hand of the selfless author, catering to the modern reader's insatiable taste for action, drama, tension, climax and resolution, no frills allowed. It was bad…
