Archives of articles

Here are some useful archives of articles about writing -

• Glimmer Train (prose craft and marketing)
• Emma Darwin (prose craft and marketing)
• Emma Lee (prose/poetry craft and marketing)

Influences

A podcast by the Australian Broadcast Corporation has several authors listing their influences. It's an interesting mix. "MiddleMarch" is mentioned, but so is the TV series "Skippy", the 70s band "Sweet" and the "BladeRunner" film. Here's my list.

• "Thunderbirds" - I fear that many of my narrative templates derive from the original TV series.
• "The Golden Cobbler" (Enid Blyton) - As a child I read some books repeatedly. This is the only title I recall. But though she wrote hundreds of books, there's no book of that name. I think I've mixed titles up.
• Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here" mostly. I think my templates may have been affected by the end of "Echoes" or the arrival of the Sax in WYWH.
• "Cinema Paradiso" (the original version - not the director's cut) - charming and sad - what more can one ask for?
• "So many ways to begin" - a novel by Jon McGregor. On the ABC program someone said that they were scared to re-read certain books in case they weren't as good the second time around. I felt like that about this novel, but my fears were unfounded - I've read it twice