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Writer’s notes

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

On writing

Every writer writes an ‘on writing’ piece. So here’s mine.

Last week in Melbourne, I went to a writer’s festival that didn’t have real writers.

There was an animal high priestess, a medium who talks to dead pets. There was an attempt to communicate sonically with bats and I thought I spotted an imaginary seal that could balance bowling balls on its nose but was only doing this to support himself while working on his novel.

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