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What to watch if you LOVE Breaking Bad
Loved Breaking Bad? Fingers crossed you haven’t seen all of these recommendations already. The following descriptions are spoiler free.
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Narrating Faulty Memory in Fiction
Today I’m taking a close look at examples of fictional narrators who know their memory may not be accurate.
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Why writing does not get any easier with practice
Does writing get easier the more you do it? Yes and no. The mechanics get easier but each project presents its own new problems.
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Heat Makes You Mad: Going Troppo & Mango Madness
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and are experiencing extreme heat for the first time, I have some Australian phrases you might find unpleasantly useful.
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Journey by Patricia MacLachlan (1991)
Journey is a middle grade novel by American author Patricia MacLachlan (1938-2022). MacLachlan was a prolific author and published over 60 novels, eventually collaborating with her daughter. People may know her best for Sarah, Plain and Tall which won the 1986 Newbery Medal. She won it again for Journey, a slim paperback of just 80…
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Why is the Australian Women’s Soccer Team Called The Matildas?
Many people are wondering for the first time in 2023, why are The Matildas called The Matildas? Is it sexist or fine, actually?
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Survival of the Thickest: Favourite One-liners and Words
Survival of the Thickest is a comedy-drama television series co-created by Michelle Buteau and Danielle Sanchez Witzel for Netflix.
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Large Blocks of Colour in Book Cover Design
The two-tone fashion we’ve seen recently in clothing extends to book covers. Here are examples of large blocks of colour in graphic design.
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Breaking Bad Discussion Questions
Love Breaking Bad? Love to talk about it? Try these discussion questions, aimed at people who love critique.
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What is empowerment?
Until we treat all people — regardless of appearance — equally, none of us is truly free, and our “choices” are not true choices.
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Why were New Zealand women first in the world to achieve suffrage?
If you know anything about New Zealand history at all, you probably learned that New Zealand women were the first in the world to achieve the right to vote in 1893.
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Recoloured Images On Book Cover Design
Recoloured images can defamiliarise the real world and encourage viewers to see their own familiar worlds afresh.
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The All Typography Book Cover
It was Paul Bacon who invented the all-typography cover. This cover will be familiar to you because it has come back into style.
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Skeuomorphism in Book Cover Design
Skeuomorphism is the design concept of making items represented resemble their real-world counterparts. Paper folds, dog-ears, rips, holes, burns, scrapbooking collage, scrap cardboard, plane tickets, letters, post-it notes… These book covers are designed to look like derivative objects. A DAMAGED PRODUCT Some book covers look as if they’ve been defaced with scribblings and crossings-out: Book covers…
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Transgender Jokes Which Are Actually Funny
So we’ve had decades and decades of jokes where trans people are the butt of the “joke”. This has extended to children’s media, where stories about gender transgression of any kind, but especially boys dressed forcibly as girls, have propped up the gender hierarchy by making it seem legitimately punishable to transgress. We’re in a…