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| manymanywords
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09-09-2004 08:41 AM ET (US)
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Hello All
I am new to this and was after some advice:)
Is it worth ever sending in work to agents on spec? ie heres some of my stuff- do you like it??
On another note- I wanted to share that have discovered this fab little theatre co called Cheeky Maggot Theatre- they workshopped one of my one act plays and were really helpful in getting me to re-work somne stuff that needed doing. Anyway they are now running writing classes at lots of levels- which I might pop along to. Their contact is www.cheekymaggot.allhere.com and I found their attitude a bit more refreshing from the stalwarts of new writing.
Any advice on what I can do to get an agent would be good. I mean do I even need one??
Thanks
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09-29-2004 12:50 PM ET (US)
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New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for September 2004 - "Troubling Utopia": Edward Picot reviews Avatara, a mindblowing DVD-documentary from Canada, filmed entirely inside an online virtual-reality community. Go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewavatara.php . The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory of hyperliterature (literature designed for computers) for sale on the Web, with links to the places where it can be bought. It also publishes reviews and articles. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk . - Edward Picot personal website - http://edwardpicot.com |
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10-29-2004 02:13 PM ET (US)
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New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for October 2004 - "John Peel: The Man who Span the Platters that Mattered" - Edward Picot pays tribute to the UK's most influential champion of alternative music. Go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewjohnpeel.php . The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory of hyperliterature (literature designed for computers) for sale on the Web, with links to the places where it can be bought. It also publishes reviews and articles. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk . - Edward Picot personal website - http://edwardpicot.com |
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11-09-2004 01:38 PM ET (US)
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New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for November 2004 - "Hyperventiliterature" - Edward Picot reviews "The Breathing Wall", an experimental ghost story/murder myster on CD-Rom, which interacts with the breathing of the viewer or reader. Go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewbreathingwall.php . The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory of hyperliterature (literature designed for computers) for sale on the Web, with links to the places where it can be bought. It also publishes reviews and articles. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk . - Edward Picot personal website - http://edwardpicot.com |
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11-27-2004 07:24 AM ET (US)
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Where are the promised details of the winner of this year's Bloc Online writing competition?
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12-04-2004 05:41 PM ET (US)
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Hi I am new here although I see that there is another Fiona around. It used to be an unusual name when I was small and some people had trouble pronouncing it Never mind. I hope to make friends with you all and perhaps who knows,provide useful advice and tips. After all we are all learning aren't we and we all need a little help from our friends don't we. So keep in touch and metaphorically shake hands,au revoir for now
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12-06-2004 09:27 AM ET (US)
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Does anyone here subscribe to BBC Get writing - bbc.co.uk/getwriting, only, the bureaucrats are closing it!
Join the site and get involved in the campaign to save it - before it's too late!!!!
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12-11-2004 10:46 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 12-11-2004 10:46 AM
I hope you didn't mind me e-mailing you, I’m a student at Salisbury College and I do creative writing. I would like to write for film and TV, please can you tell me what qualifications I would need to do this, and if you have any advice please? Thank you very much. Please e-mail me at toppuk@yahoo.co.uk
I also hope they don't close BBC get writing as it's a wonderful resource centre, it would be awful if we lost it.
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12-13-2004 10:51 AM ET (US)
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Louise - e-mail/fax or write to your MP about BBC Get Writing and sign the online petition at the Get Writing site (there's also a outline letter that you can use for campaigning to save Get Writing!)
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12-28-2004 12:02 PM ET (US)
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"The Recycling Bins" is a new nonlinear story from Edward Picot, exploring the theme of small-town attitudes towards the environment, and including one song. It's now available at http://edwardpicot.com/binsindex.html for 25c via the BitPass micropayments system. (If you've never used BitPass, it only takes a few clicks, and they offer a wealth of interesting material such as online comics and music: see http://www.bitpass.com/ .) Also new from Edward Picot: "The Bonfire", a prose poem with pictures; "Penguin Memories", a short piece for children with pictures and audio; "Sweetheart's Expedition", a short story with pictures, also for children; and a completely reorganised and updated links section, with links to many other exciting works of digital literature or new media. Please visit and browse at http://edwardpicot.com . Please also visit and browse my other site, The Hyperliterature Exchange, which reviews and lists digital literature for sale: it's at http://hyperex.co.uk . Happy New Year! |
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01-26-2005 07:50 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 01-26-2005 07:50 AM
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for January 2005 - "Picture This..." - Edward Picot reviews "Postcards from Writing" by Sally Pryor, a new media work about picture writing and the linguistic theory of Integrationism. Go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewpostcards.php . The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory of hyperliterature (literature designed for computers) for sale on the Web, with links to the places where it can be bought. It also publishes reviews and articles. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk . - Edward Picot personal website - http://edwardpicot.com
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02-02-2005 01:34 PM ET (US)
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Payments for Web Art New on The Hyperliterature Exchange/trAce for February 2005 - Should web art be free or should it be paid for? Many new media writers and artists regard asking for payment as philosophically objectionable and a good way to lose audience numbers. Others believe that it's just as reasonable to ask payment for web art as to ask it for a book or a painting. To read the views of a number of web artists on this subject, visit http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewpayments.php; or to read an article about it, written by Edward Picot for the trAce organistion, visit http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=129. - Edward Picot personal website - http://edwardpicot.com |
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03-28-2005 09:24 AM ET (US)
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Wrestling with Angels New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for March 2005 - Edward Picot reviews "Sampler", a DVD+ from Alan Sondheim, which contains close to five gigabytes of text, images and video. Sondheim is one of the best-known and longest-established new media artists. Since 1994 he has been developing a huge project which he calls the "Internet Text", an "extended meditation on cyberspace"; and the "Sampler" DVD+ provides a representative cross-section of this work. The review is at http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewsondheim.php . The Hyperliterature Exchange is a directory/review of new media writing for sale online; please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk . - Edward Picot personal website - http://edwardpicot.com |
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06-29-2005 10:31 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 06-29-2005 10:32 AM
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for July 2005 - "Why are people being made redundant, why does redundancy still mean poverty, why are the inequities of the system being exaggerated, when if things were reorganised effectively not only the need to work, but poverty and starvation too, could be abolished for the vast majority of the world's population?" Edward Picot reviews "The World Owes You A Living", a monolithic 6-CD audio-collage on the subject of jobs and new technology, by the Canadian new media artist Matt Fair. To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewtwoyal.php . The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk . - Edward Picot personal website - http://edwardpicot.com
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08-09-2005 12:52 PM ET (US)
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The Greyhound Murder - new from Edward Picot "After dark, someone came knocking on the door. Seven knocks, so loud they went right through the house... I was looking at the sky. It was a windy day. There were white clouds going across, brilliantly white, and beyond them the blue... 'By their fruits shall ye know them,' he said. 'And he that is unjust, let him be unjust still, for the hour is at hand.'... I shone my torch: something brown to the left of the drive. A boot. Then something bulky in the weeds. A leg, two legs, a body. Twisted and red..." A new nonlinear story, "The Greyhound Murder", is now available on my personal website, for 25c via BitPass. Also new: "Sheep", "Triptych" and "Don Quixote's Dream", three small pieces on the theme of sheep. Please visit and browse. - Edward Picot http://edwardpicot.com - Personal website http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange |
