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		<title>True Stories.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Memory is a funny thing. It defines our motives. It helps us define our lives. What we can remember is what we can pass on. What we remember is our truth. But here&#8217;s the kicker. Writing true stories, whether they be of your memories or the memories of others as told to you can be a real challenge. Here&#8217;s some stuff I&#8217;ve noticed about it. For a start, writing memories is an emotional minefield. Memories have an implied ownership. Your memories, right?  Your memories may be your own, but keep in mind others who may have experienced the same event or time period with you, also have implied ownership]]></description>
		
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		<title>Time is on Our Side, Writers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Ash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2016 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So much of our life and language is tied up in our understanding of time. Work deadlines, milestones, catching planes, gym timetables, shop opening hours, making time, wasting time, time on our hands, killing time. We glance at our smartphone or our fitbit or the clock on the wall to check the time because we know time means something. Hey, but do we really know what time it is?  Apparently not. Yesterday, I saw a brilliant documentary about time, hosted by the lovely Brian Cox, who never really seems to stop smiling. Perhaps he smiles constantly because his line of work is so awesome, quantum physics.  If]]></description>
		
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		<title>Whose Story is It Anyway?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Ash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writers are bower birds, so watch out what you say around them!  We&#8217;ll pick up on any old event or situation you name and immediately start plotting a story. We often find ourselves telling stories about the experiences of other people.  But hold on. Some stories are not yours to tell. There is a controversial TV show running in Australia currently. It&#8217;s called First Contact, essentially a reality TV program masquerading as a hard-hitting documentary, wherein a group of six &#8216;white&#8217; Australians are taken on a tour of several indigenous communities (including a prison community) to confront them with the reality of indigenous peoples&#8217; past and present]]></description>
		
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		<title>Incredible marks on a page.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Ash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s it all for? Writing. Why do you write anything? What&#8217;s the compulsion? Do you understand the act of writing?  Are you conscious of the gift? I take for granted the act of writing. I neglect the joy of having been taught to read. As a writer, I just do what I do and I don&#8217;t think enough about the tools I&#8217;ve been given. I&#8217;m using tools to put marks on a page. The marks have sounds. The marks have meaning. The marks make up a letter, a word, a sentence, an idea, a story, part of a culture, part of an existence, part of a]]></description>
		
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		<title>Script Intervention and Re-hab</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Ash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ever watch that trainwreck of a reality TV show Intervention? Compelling viewing, wasn&#8217;t it, watching the details of a human tragedy unfold with the promise of redemption and release always hanging the air? See now, I&#8217;m living in my own private script intervention, complete with a rehab program, and turns out, it&#8217;s far from entertaining. Damn right unpleasant. They try to make me go to rehab, I say, oh, oh, oh&#8230;. A couple of years ago I wrote a play as a result of a little visualisation exercise at a workshop.  The guru running this workshop gave us an hour to write a full synopsis of the play]]></description>
		
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		<title>Them&#8217;s Fighting Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2016 10:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who the hell are you as a writer?  What do you stand up for?  When you hear of evil and see evil, do you speak of it?  Where&#8217;s them fighting words? What you got? In 1996, Filipino playwright Paul Dumol, who was famously accused of sedition in his plays, and suffered persecution by his own government because of it, once pointedly looked at me as the only Western face in one of his workshops, and asked a very good question: what on earth do playwrights write about in the West? The question is one that has bugged me ever since. He wasn&#8217;t trying to be funny.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stop reading. Stop looking.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2016 05:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Look. A piece of Art. How amazing! Yeah, I&#8217;m keeping up with my artform. I liked it, click that thumbs-up icon.  Click, it&#8217;s off my list. Next!  Oh, come on! Really? Back it up. &#160; If you want to be a playwright, read scripts and go see plays performed. If you&#8217;re going to be a screenwriter, get in and read screenplays and view films. Etc. etc. blah, blah, blah. We&#8217;ve all heard this before, right?  This advice is so old it needs a Zimmer frame and daytime pyjamas. But I don&#8217;t often hear this advice being offered, and it is the most critical of all. Don&#8217;t just]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crusty But Benign</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Ash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Modern Family&#8217;s Jay Pritchett.  It&#8217;s Star Trek&#8217;s Doctor McCoy.  It&#8217;s Orange Is The New Black&#8217;s Galina &#8220;Red&#8221; Reznikov.  It&#8217;s a Hollywood (and small screen) staple, and some might conclude a complete cliche. Yet the &#8216;crusty but benign&#8217; character, forever firing off conflicting messages of love and disdain, has something to tell us writers. A long time ago a mentor of mine made a simple suggestion. She asked me to describe the characters in the play I was working on in ways that added contradiction. She encouraged me to write something like this in the character list at the top of the play: Cynthia, loyal and dutiful,]]></description>
		
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		<title>Once in a Super Moon&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 05:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In honour of the extraordinary and rare moon we are having in the last few nights here in Australia, I&#8217;ve been thinking about rare things that can happen in a writer&#8217;s lifetime.  It&#8217;s not all beer and skittles, or a bed of roses or fun in the sun. Life as a writer is never going to be easy, but once in a Super (rare) moon, odd things happen&#8230; You get it right first draft. Harold Pinter was one of those stupidly talented writers who apparently only ever wrote first drafts. That&#8217;s the meme anyway, and I do not vouch for the validity. Can you imagine]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Active At Work.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 23:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a small grant at the moment. It&#8217;s been years since I tried my hand at grant-writing. Six years or more, and oh! what a coincidence, the same time number of years I&#8217;ve been employed in one of those distracting &#8220;real jobs&#8221; I was telling you about a yesterday. The project for which I&#8217;m applying for a grant requires the services of a musician and a record producer, and promises to be a fantastic outcome should it happen. I&#8217;ll keep you posted because I think it will be something other writers would be interested in too! Cue the mmmm..mystery trill. Amid the flurry]]></description>
		
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