Must visit sites to get you started on your Microfiction entry
Wordle: A toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. They are also a crucial part of this year’s Play Now Act Now Microfiction category.
www.wordle.net
NSW Young Writer’s Festival: Australia’s premier event for emerging writers, publishers, performers and troublemakers.
www.youngwritersfestival.org
Trespass Magazine: Trespass is not a life manual. It’s an access-all-areas pass to what’s happening in the world of generation Y. It’s a reflection of everything that is cool, topical and worth it. Play Now Act Now partner and always on the lookout for new writers.
www.trespassmag.com.au
Concrete Playground: Concrete Playground is an online weather vane pointing you to the cultural tornadoes that are just about to hit. Updated daily, and with a weekly newsletter that maps out your seven day schedule, it is the work of a collective of writers and social secretaries who have a constant ear to the under and above (but never middle) ground of Sydney’s creative world.
www.concreteplayground.com.au
Arts & Letters Daily: Ideas, criticism and debate- on everything from Barack Obama to Ronald McDonald.
www.aldaily.com
Sydney Writers’ Festival: The world, in words- May 2010
www.swf.org.au
Emerging Writer’s Festival: The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) exists to promote the interests of emerging writers – to improve their opportunities for professional development and their engagement with the broader public.
www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
12 Words: Like our Microfiction section, but even smaller! Tell a story in 12 words or less, convey a mood, give a glimpse at a person. If you’re aged between 15 and 25 and living in Australia when take part in this online competition and win prizes.
www.12words.com.au
One Sentence: Tell your story, briefly. Insignificant stories, everyday stories, or turning-point-in-your-life stories, boiled down to their bare essentials.
www.onesentence.org
Creative Screenwriting Magazine: Named “Best Screenwriting Magazine” by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, Creative Screenwriting brings you the finest articles on the craft and business of screenwriting 6 times a year. Also plays host to one of the best podcasts on the net.
www.creativescreenwriting.com
Writing Tips: Free podcasts by Hollywood screenwriter Chris Soth exploring his “mini-Movie Method”
Episodes include: Want vs. Need, Character Arc & Character Voice, Titles!, Reels…Really?, Let’s Give Voice… to Voice., A Dialogue on Dialogue, Using Theme and Arc to Generate Characters.
www.milliondollarscreenwriting.com
Alternative Storytelling: Michael Haneke, Director of Funny Games, in an interview discussing the film and how it subverts classical story structure and playing with audience expectation.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Scripts: A lot of scripts are online and available for free download. Here are four sites that have heaps in various drafts.
www.script-o-rama.com
www.movie-page.com
www.dailyscript.com
www.moviefan.org
