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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Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
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