May 2022 — round-up of posts

Here is quick master list of the May 2022 blog posts (not including Patreon posts).

The starred posts have art and writing exercises (tags: writing exercise, art exercise), but most of the observation journal posts can generally be adapted for those purposes too.

• April 2022 — round-up of posts
• Brisbane Writers Festival 2022 very brief recap (workshops given, panels chaired or spoken on)
• A loose collection of thoughts on other people’s appreciation of things (I like them)
• Dickens on plot twists and (mis?)direction and managing reader’s realisations in serialised formats
• Handouts as a structuring principle, mockups for getting things done (little handouts for the map workshop)
• *Observation journal: remixing good art (learning from others’ art and your own habits)
• *Observation Journal: Five Things to Steal from Midsomer Murders
• Advance copies of A G Slatter’s The Path of Thorns (with my review)
• *Observation Journal: Five Things to Steal from Porco Rosso
• Electoral sketching (drawings of people buying sausages)
• The Path of Thorns — Brisbane launch 17 June 2022 (free registration here)
• Alumni Book Sale Acquisitions (books!)
• *Observation journal: Turning observations into (silly) ideas (and some not so silly)
• Alumni book sale sketches (people with books!)
• Short story reading: a few notes on selection (why I read what I’ve been reading)
• June 2022 Calendar — wolf boys
• May 2022 short story reading post (all my notes on short stories read in May)

Posts over on Patreon at various tiers were still slightly abbreviated post-Covid, but included: advance previews of some of these posts, observation journal pages (with PDFs), some life updates, sneak peeks at a silhouette project, a time-lapse art process video, peculiar stationery, writing progress news, and early access to the calendar.

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