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Episode 37 with Emma Viskic – award-winning crime author
“I kept one word from the story. It was Commodore.”
Episode 37 – Emma Viskic – Show Notes
- Plantser, vomit and polish
- Writing at the extreme ends of the day
- Belonging, communication and loss, deaf and indigenous characters. Exploration of themes throughout a series
- Training wheels novels
- Taking the first sentence from a novel chapter to build a short story
- Short stories teach how to cut words, cut characters and have a clean line throughout
- The difficulty of a crime short story
- A 10 month unfinished vomit draft
- Each book is written in a different way with different pressures; first book, second book and third book
- Hilary Mantel, Peter Temple, JM Green
- And Fire Came Down – scars and fire season
“Sending them to the farm to play with the other words.”
“There’s vomit and there’s polish. It’s a mess.”
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