References for Writing class. (Including some of the off the cuff ones!)

Hey Hey      By the way      !!!!    

  There is an event happening on the 1st of November, called the Ladies Literatea...    
I understand it costs $60 and there are about twenty tickets left. 

If you're in a position to, and can book online or ring the women's bookshop, or go in there in person, 
it should be well worth it for an afternoon / evening event with 11 women authors and tea and so on. 

Here is the link:             http://www.womensbookshop.co.nz/pages/793-LadiesLitera-Tea






Hi...  I know some of you are checking in here...   and I am here working on this!

Keep checking back in!   and this will become much more rewarding!

(and I will just keep updating even though it looks unfinished so I don't lose my work!)

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Agatha Christie
Known as the "Queen of Crime" and famous for being so immensely prolific as well as brilliant.  Kept notebooks about her all the time.  Here are a few gems on another blog I just googled up:
Blog with a few quotes from Agatha Christie on writing


Virginia Woolf
'A room of one's own'  Both the title of her famous essay, and the concept driving it.


Simone de Beauvoir

I thought, she said something like "Keep a diary when you are young, and when you are older that diary will keep you"  But I can't find it.  Anyway she is well known for her diaries and prolific private writing as well as her published work, and I did find this quote instead!

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed



Bill Manhire
"Write what you know, and write what you don't know".
The man behind Victoria University's creative writing course provides wisdom in this timeless piece of advice on beginning writing.


Julia Cameron
Famous for her work with the book and concept of The Artist's Way.
Also her earlier books which instigated a movement of using sustained writing as a practice.  She calls these 'Morning Pages'
  Here is Julia Cameron's site:  Julia Cameron's official website


Glen Colquhoun
New Zealand Author and poet, who wrote the extraordinary personal / public piece called The therapeutic uses of Ache.
The link is here:    The therapeutic uses of Ache


Anne Lamott
A New York based author of a lovely book called 'Bird by Bird', which is a combination of self-writing and writing instruction.
   This is where I picked up the concept of the polaroid image, and looking at what is in the background.
   She is very funny to read and fast paced.

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” 
Anne Lamott

I just plucked that link of her online writing off a google search.  But by all means google her up yourself and you'll find other quotes and inspiration there too.


Dick Frizzell
Hang on, he's a New Zealand painter.   Yes he is, but he also published his autobiography.  Quite apart from that, and his book is a great example of self-writing, I like to reference his story about referencing!
Remind me to tell you this one!

Dick Frizzell's book

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Irvine Welsh
Here he is here:  Irvine Welsh's official page  He is totally renowned for writing in his character's voice.  Almost so that the language created is of its own kind, a phonetic transportation into Scotish streetwise parochial slang.

Also Stephen Berkoff  
playwright, and performer uses character monologue famously in his Play East as an example.
Stephen Berkoff site.

Synge



J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye.
1951.
The very famous example of a work written entirely in character voice.

"...the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."




Richard O'Brian

The Rocky Horror Picture show

The character of the criminologist who invites us in to the story after the opening sequence, is a narrator persona :

  

   they being 
   normal kids and on a night out, well 
   they were not going to let a storm 
   spoil the events of their evening.

   On a night out.

 He closes the book marking the place.

 Thunder is heard distantly on the sound track.

     NARRATOR
   It was a night out they were going to
   remember for a very long time.

 Lighting cracks on the sound track.

        WIPE TO

19 EXT. NIGHT

 A windscreen wiper working under strain.  Torrential rain on the 
 windscreen.  BRAD concentrating on visibility.  JANET eating chocolates 

click here to read the whole scene.

scroll down to scene 18.  

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Keith Johnstone

impro

Improvisation and the theatre.

I realized on re-reading this book a couple of years ago, that I was teaching my writing course, with this thinking in the background of my study.

Johnstone is considered to be the founding practitioner for improvisation technique in theatre.  (Also the  instigating practice and driver behind theatre-sports, but so much more...)

     I had forgotten twenty years after reading it the first time that he left the teaching world in frustration at the lack of creativity and the stifling environment, and went back into theatre to learn from his then teachers at the Court Theatre in London.

Keith Johnstone's website.

J.M.Barrie

Peter Pan
 a play adapted from the novel.

The first scene gives us marvelous examples of theatrical dynamic and shifts in status.  

Roald Dahl

  The boy who talked with Animals.

  & The wonderful story of Henry Sugar
From the collection of short stories titled: The wonderful story of Henry Sugar and Six More.


another version   of the Boy who talked with animals, PLEASE read the original first!!

Joseph Campbell

Anthropologist and prolific writer, well known and highly quoted for his works on myth and and the human psyche.
I'm referring to A Hero's Journey.

 This is the link: for the Joseph Campbell Foundation

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Aristotle

Roman play structure.

Freyberg

Stanislavski

Faulkner
As I lay Dying

Sebastian Faulkes
Birdsong

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Lisa Reihana
In pursuit of Venus

Recently exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery.
In Pursuit of Venus Website


Alan Loney



News article about Keri Hulme's interview from last year.
Warning the sound quality is a bit annoying here, because they're in a car...  and I am still hunting for the actual interview.

SIX (and beyond)

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