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Lee Child’s critique of writing rules
Thriller author Lee Child sells millions of books per year. Few authors sell more books. I was immediately interested in the video below that challenges some of the rules most editors and book experts prescribe for beginning writers – and there are many on the internet – because I’m sceptical of some. One rule I think is overdone is the ‘show, don’t tell’ rule. Lee Child thinks so, too. This video is one of a series Child has done on writing for the BBC.
Jean Shrimpton – more to her than her iconic status
I was doing some research on the 1960s for my latest title (Book 6) in my Sixties Series when I came across references to Jean Shrimpton, an Icon of the 1960s. I shouldn’t have been surprised to find numerous videos about her on YouTube. Below is a video that shows there was more to her than the stunning model that entranced the world.
She was incomparable. The girls (in Sydney) I knew at the time were crazy about her. I remember the Melbourne Cup incident well. I was nineteen in 1965. The irony is that hems at the Melbourne Cup the following year were above the knee – even those of the matrons who were so insulted the year before. Incidentally, I don’t believe the Orlon dress was above the knee because the company provided too little material. It was planned and carried out to perfection. No one has surpassed Shrimpton’s natural, unaffected beauty and the aura she projected.
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Violent youth crime – What is the ethnic background?
Machete violence is new in Australia. One hardly saw a machete anywhere up until certain migrant groups came to Australia. They were migrants who came from countries where a machete was a normal work tool but deputised as a weapon of war in such countries as Rwanda. Rwanda can pride itself on one of the most horrific genocides of the 20th century.
Reporting of youth crimes hides the ethnicity of the perpetrator by making no mention of it or by blocking features that would reveal the ethnicity. It is significant for community protection to know whether some groups are more representative in certain crimes than others. It’s time to draw the veil of protection aside and be honest with the Australian community.
My latest release – Love in the Counterculture
Love in the Counterculture, Book 5 in my Sixties Series, has been released on Amazon in paperback and ebook and on many other internet platforms.
Serena Williams’ hubris
One can’t always be serious. So, I make the following comment about the Serena Williams fiasco.
Media organisations are calling 44-year-old Serena Williams’ first-round defeat at Wimbledon by 20-year-old Maya Joint a shock. Give me a break. Defeating a fresh, upcoming opponent was never going to happen. My advice to Serena is to pack her tennis gear away and maintain some dignity in her retirement.
Great work Maya Joint. Keep it up. Australia needs some heroes.
How Islam will conquer the West
Dr Gad Saad says that Islam claims it will conquer the West in three ways:
- Islam will conquer the West through the womb of its women. This is the demographic battle. Muslim women will produce many more children than the white Western race. Demography is destiny. It’s already happening.
- Islam will conquer the West through immigration. It’s already happening.
- Islam will conquer the West by using their miserable freedoms and liberties against them. It’s already far advanced.
It is a tragic and confirming irony that Charlie Kirk, who interviews Dr Saad here, was assassinated by a fanatical member of the left.
Just watch as the lefties occupying the major media instruments and organisations in Australia, rush to the defence of Muslims with the cry of Islamophobia! whenever there is the slightest criticism of the Muslim occupiers in Australia’s cities.
Islam – bringing civilisational and cultural warfare to Australia
Many around the world, including me, have been for years warning about the Islamic invasion of the West. Prominent among them have been bestselling author Douglas Murray and Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who has experienced the deadly religio-political ideology close up (see my previous comment). The refusal to confront the clear evidence for the bitter, relentless Islamic crusade amounts to abject betrayal – to treason.
What will it take to wake our governments up? For a start, Australians could vote for Pauline Hanson and One Nation, who have given an undertaking to take the fight up to the Muslims occupying their piece of Australian estate, and to the fanatical Marxists who give crucial support to the invaders.
Below is another spot-on video from ‘Oceania Unfiltered’. It makes all the right points about Muslims and the Islamic invasion of Australia. I highly recommend subscribing to Oceania Unfiltered.
Jeffrey Sachs and his sympathy for Russia
The video below has allegedly gone viral. I made this brief comment:
Jeffrey Sachs is extremely one-sided. Everybody should know how Finland, Poland and the Baltic states regard Russia. Putin himself is not at all shy about Russia’s imperial ambitions. How often do we hear key people in Islam talk about converting the world – by violence if necessary? The symbol of Islam is the sword. Hasn’t Sachs noticed? Does he not know the history of Islam? What should Israel do about Islam’s stated objective to destroy the Jewish people? These are fundamental questions about which you don’t need a professorship to understand. War and defence of your country and culture are sometimes a dirty business. The Americans are far from infallible, but I’m on the side of those combating enemies who want to destroy the West. What skin does Sachs have in the game?