Monthly Archives: September 2010

puppetry and robotics

Posted on September 29, 2010 by anna cowan

I went and saw a very odd, whimsical little puppet show tonight. If rubber gloves full of water with tin-can heads having sex and/or eating each other can be called whimsical… It reminded me a lot of how I felt … Continue reading →

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character building

Posted on September 28, 2010 by anna cowan

A couple of posts ago I was thinking about narrative tension, and how as a reader we want the conflict/problem to be resolved, when actually it’s the fact that it’s not solved yet that keeps us reading. Well I just … Continue reading →

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touch

Posted on September 27, 2010 by anna cowan

I just watched part of a documentary about, you know, life the universe and everything. Also about how you never actually touch…anything. It explained that the reason you don’t fall through the ground to the earth’s core is that the … Continue reading →

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what football, good writing and Sherlock Holmes have in common

Posted on September 25, 2010 by anna cowan

I watched the last 20 minutes of the AFL grand final today. I’m not a huge sports person, but I was doing that mad thing people do when they watch sport, where they leap around and laugh in disbelief and … Continue reading →

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life according to pigeon

Posted on September 24, 2010 by anna cowan

just to prove that I don’t only read romance, here’s a passage from Austerlitz by W G Sebald. It filled me with a sudden, sharp melancholy – because,  I think, it is at once recognisable as the experience of being … Continue reading →

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