Let the Action Begin

It’s always the toughest thing in writing to try to start off the piece you are trying to write, be it an essay, creative piece or something completely unique. How do you begin? Do you start off with a humorous line; try to get some laughs out of the reader? Or do you go for a high impact and deep line to really hit the reader right off the bat? This all of course depends greatly on what exactly the piece you are creating is about and what context is within it. Of course, once that start is created the rest of the piece can flow quite quickly if you know what to write about and have an idea of what to say. Until that start is achieved however, getting into the meat of the piece can be hard to get to.

This is one of the many challenges which writers face when writing. The Bendigo Writers Festival was something which brought together numerous writers to delve into a number of subjects to do with writing. Some attended to learn about ways to improve their own writing, others to learn about the writers themselves.  

Personally I went to the festival for my own different reasons. I went to the festival as part of a class which I was doing that centred around the festival, one of those ‘everything at once’ kind of deals, most of the it happening during the festivals, in what turned out to be a stressful and hectic weekend, but a very enjoyable one indeed.

Most of my time at the festival was filled up with doing camera work of the sessions which were needed to film for a project which I was involved with, a program about the festival which will be aired on Channel 31 in October. So I feel that doing this has given me a more unique perspective on what the festival was like and the atmosphere which inhabited it. Working with the camera and seeing the events through the lens makes one observe things that they otherwise may not, such as how a certain view of a shot that would be unnoticeable or less impactful with the camera to look though.

So if you came here to read an extremely detailed blog on each event that was on during the writer’s festival than this probably isn’t the blog for you. If however you want to read a different perspective on the festival and writing in general, then this is a blog which may interest you.

  This first post is more of a general welcome one, a taste of what’s to come as well as what sort of content to expect in future posts.