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Looking for the Next Generation
It is the time of the season. The young ones are putting their artwork on show at the outset of what they hope will be a long and successful vocation as artists. (read more)
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Openings: An Esoteric Short Story
Voices from another dimension, or glitches in the wiring? Into the Esoterics of Music (read more)
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Write Better Words: The Nuts and Bolts
The good stuff is there in your mind – getting it onto paper just takes discipline (read more)
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Write Better Words: A Step by Step Guide
Turn up at the page (and avoid cliches like that one). How to be a better writer. (read more)
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Where is the Duende? Frack Language, Frack Self
When we frack language, we tear apart the core of self (read more)
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Sci-Fi London: Film, Music, Literature and Canine Cosplay #SFL17
Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more (read more)
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Play the Body: Screenwriting for Visceral Viewing
Good screenwriting prompts reactions in the body as well as the mind. How so? (read more)
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Visceral Viewing: Screenwriting for the Human Brain(s)
Effective screenwriters not only aim for psychological effect – they seek to create ‘visceral viewing’. (read more)
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Let Me Think, But Not Much: Screenwriting and the Brain(s)
100 Problems, but as long as they’re someone else’s, we’re locked to our seats. (read more)
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Shake Your Inner Monkey: Movie Screenwriting and The Limbic Brain
Sex, Politics, Celebrity: What’s on your monkey mind? (read more)
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Caress Your Inner Bunny (or We’ll Boil It): Movie Plotting and Psychology
You want to write a killer plot? Feed the croc, snuggle the bunny and give the monkey a promotion (read more)
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Words, Phrases and Sentences: The Connective Tissue of Humanity
Poets strive to map the beauty and terror of existence. You have never been alone. (read more)
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They Say the Devil’s In the Deep End
When you meet the devil, the only response is to wake and bake (read more)
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Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?
t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the present information boom and flourishing ‘attention economy’ era it is a necessity to (read more)
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The Itch and the Burn. New Jersey Karma
Anything that could dig a hole had crawled underground. The poolboys feel the burn. (read more)
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Pristine Pools, Watery Bowels and the Septic American Dream
There are biological consequences to keeping an open sewer of stagnant water in your garden. Even if you call it a pool. (read more)
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Sympathy/Empathy: The Very Air That Evil Breathes.
Manipulating the reader’s revulsion at the bias of a clumsy attack is now an established technique of political propaganda (read more)
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Bad Vibes in the Jersey Punchbowl
Sex, Strippers and Staph Infections in the Jersey ‘Burbs (read more)
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Pee and Loathing in New Jersey
Of all the strippers’ pools to be cleaning, it had to be this one…. (read more)
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Love in a Time of Algae: Play the Devil (Extract)
Like the ancients before us, let’s drink the wine. Smoke the stash. Paint the caves. (read more)
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Have An Imaginative Christmas
Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination. (read more)
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Subject Matters: Searching for The Perfect Pop Music Lyric
Man and The Echo’s Gareth Roberts waxes lyrical about the importance of good lyrics in pop music. (read more)
Art
Art Resistance Journal Third Text Relaunches
Editor of seminal counter-institutional art journal Third Text announces relaunch. (read more)
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Frankie had them both on the ground and bleeding in two hits.
n my junior year I saw thirty-five fist fights. They came like some pandemic no one had ever seen, and no one knew what to do. One fight the first day. Five the next. Two (read more)
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On Working at Barnes and Noble
“You want to be a writer,” Kelly said. “Why don’t you work at Barnes & Noble?”
“I wear clothes, too. Maybe I should get a job in a sweatshop.” (read more)
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Finding Nick Tosches
I asked him how he had gotten his first book published. “It’s a dead industry”, he said. (read more)
About Trebuchet
Honest and Unmerciful
Writing for Trebuchet. If you can give us 500 words on Black Sabbath that demonstrates; focus, research, differentiation, and appeal you’ve got a gig. (read more)
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Howard Marks: First there was the Welsh…
Howard Marks has become something of a cult-celebrity. Trebuchet interviews the ex-con about his other ‘other’ pastime – writing. (read more)
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Marcel Theroux: A Blow to the Heart
Marcel Theroux is the son of a travelling writing behemoth (Paul), and older brother of TV’s dissembling clown (Louis). He has said in the past he’d like to be known in his own right. I’ve probably given him exactly the kind of introduction he hates, so I feel a bit guilty, since the book is very good. Here are some of the things it’s about (proportions are approximate): (read more)
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Howard Marks: Senor Nice
Howard Marks, ex-dope-dealer extraordinaire and veteran of America’s toughest penitentiary, is tonight treading the boards at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, joint in hand and sounding lethargic. (read more)