Louise Tu'u

Louise Tu'u came in to talk about her writing practice and her journey as a playwright. She talked about all aspects of her writing methods, and from her visit the main thing I got was to question everything in your piece. I have always been interested in playwriting, but never really knew how to get around to it. I asked her about her writing process and she said that she uses the technical theatre conventions (lights, sound etc) as a driving narrative. I thought that was an interesting way of writing. She talked about the loss of language and identity crises, being a part of her writing but not the main idea. She said how sometimes alot of Polynesian playwrights resort to Samoan or Tongan or whatever songs and such, as a default, and that definately struck a chord in terms of my own writing practice. Without relying on culture as the main idea it might show more, it's about becoming more creative in displaying culture, not relying on the norm and establishing your own brand of identity.
I really enjoyed her visit, I found her to be quite down to earth and that being grounded is the best thing for established peoples. She's a fucking funny bitch, I'm pretty sure we're besties now, just sayinnnnn!!! haha she has a nickname for me (Captain Collaboration) hoooollllllaaa ;) hahahah


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Shallow

Pastel hearts in bloom
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open hands to palm the
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Amber Lune

"The The Impotence of Proofreading," by TAYLOR MALI

Fantastic poem about proofreading ;)
for more: http://taylormali.com/

Editing.

When reading through a piece of writing, you expect the only thing you have to do, is contribute to their piece by reading it and interpreting it for you. When you have to look out for grammatical errors, puncuation and spelling mistakes, it loses flow and annoys the shit out of some people (i.e. me).

Perhaps it will make me try harder to not have any typos in my work. Which is something I should be aware of anyway, but I'm a poet, I'll do whatever the fuck I want.

I can't really fault the writer for the typos, it's human nature to make mistakes, but it's also human to bitch about people's mistakes.

I know how important proofreading is, I just can't be bothered with mistakes.

And you can't fault me for being lazy.

The me.

likes overly indulging people with banal musings.
opshopping and dressing in the dark.
staring at awkward people on the bus.
making carnal with lovely peoples.
Bjork

hates everyone equally.