Other Interests: pursuing your passion

What I'm playing

Line Rider..good fun.

Brisbane Writers' Festival

I went to 2 sessions of the Brisbane Writers' Festival last night:

The standout was Nick Earls' terrific interview of (conversation with) Jasper Fforde.

Fforde revealed that his many sub-plots are deliberate, as are his "Easter Eggs" and seeded references to things that may or may not happen in the future. We also found out how a focus-puller on movies became a novelist.

The other session was a panel on comedy writing consisting of R.L.Stine ("Goosebumps"),
Ian McFadyen and Sean Dooley. Interesting but the format was too restrictive.

Steve Irwin: death stuns a nation

It's not often that news of a person's death spreads so rapidly and with disbelief.

Steve Irwin was a person whose character hit a chord with Australians: a larrikin who loved nature and animals, was successful doing something he enjoyed, wore khakis and had no airs and graces.

And he died while swimming on the Great Barrier Reef.

UPDATE: Steve Irwin tribute video