Dear Alison,
that's a lot of writing! My daughters are very excited about _The Singing_
and the cute small book (Beatrice esp about the latter as she worships the
diminutive.)
And viva TN! It's one of the great things about the web that an
internationally accessible space can be made for reporting such important
happenings.
As regards the snaps, I'm looking at the possibility of setting up a system
where poets can upload their snaps directly to a website as well as posting
to the list. This would ensure that formatting and such have more stability
and small corrections can more easily be made by the author instead of using
a shake the hand that shook the hand system.
When it comes to previous snaps, I'm open to suggestions. A volunteer, or
volunteers to bring the archive up to date would be very welcome.
best
Randolph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:59 PM
Subject: [POETRYETC] Lists lists lists
>I have spent the past couple of days making lists of what I'm supposed to
>be
> doing. It's rather alarming when I write it down.
>
> I'm working on four different ms of poems - two chapbooks, a collaboration
> with the artist Paul Cava for a publisher in Germany and (supposedly) a
> full-length collection, though that just keeps being a pile on my desk
> that
> I don't quite know how to arrange and keep shuffling and shuffling. And I
> am
> currently writing The Singing, the fourth and final book of my YA fantasy
> series (details at http://alisoncroggon.com/fantasy for those curious who
> don't know) though the wheels fell off that the past couple of weeks and I
> have to start again. It's due next year and that's 500 pages of writing.
> And
> I've also said yes to a 5000 word short story set in the same world that
> Walker wants to publish as one of those cute small books, like the ones
> Penguin does, which has to be done by next month. And a company in New
> York
> has asked me to write a short play for them, also due early next year. And
> it's about time I began to think about the next Masthead.
>
> Aside from that, Theatre Notes is taking a lot of time. It's a very
> exciting
> time to be going to theatre in Melbourne, where there is a theatre
> renaissance happening right now, and TN is a place where it can be
> chronicled. I feel a deep commitment to TN because there is almost nowhere
> else here where this work will be noticed and written about and like too
> much brilliant theatre work in Australia, things will just vanish and be
> forgotten when they are over. There are also miscellaneous reviews for
> radio
> and other freelance jobs and so on that spin off from that too and that
> earn
> me a bit of money. &c.
>
> The consequence is, and has been for a while, that the Snaps archives have
> got behind. Very behind. It's actually been impossible over the past year
> to
> find the necessary hours I need to catch up.
>
> The question is whether anyone on the list would like to take over doing
> the
> Snaps web page. Or any other suggestions on how to deal with them? What do
> you petceteras want to do?
>
> All best
>
> Alison
>
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> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>
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