Graeme Simsion

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Creative writing courses – do they help? January 27, 2013
The subtitle of this post is “do they help?” rather than “do they work?”. The latter subtitle suggests a process that will, by itself, reliably churn out successful creative writers. I haven’t seen one, and I’m not going to argue that they exist or are possible. But, as a consumer of creative writing education over […]
Wrong! Disagreement and dysfunction July 24, 2012
Commenting on a recent hard-fought byelection, The Age economics writer Tim Colebatch made a plea for some cooperation, observing , “in reality, most of us agree on most things.” http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/most-of-us-agree-on-most-things-so-why-such-partisanship-20120723-22khc.html It’s a commonplace: that the things that unite us are stronge […]
What makes a good whatever? July 19, 2012
Once again, issues from different aspects of my work highlighting a common theme: 1. Feedback from my editor on The Rosie Project novel. 2. Mike Sager’s post on data model quality – on which I commented – at http://mikesdataviews.blogspot.com.au/ The common theme is: how do we measure the quality of a creative product? Bryan Lawson, […]

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