HeyJaredDavid Burton's Writing
Thought-provoking and emotional reflections every week from award-winning writer David Burton
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Pausing (opens the original)
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Hi gang,Just a quick note to say I’m pausing paid subscriptions and will be MIA for a while as I take care of other projects and a busy work calendar. Will return when I can. Always love to hear from you. Thanks as always for your ongoing attention and eyes and love and butts.Cheers,Dave<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1519125323398-675f0ddb6308?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxNHx8cmFuZG9tfGVufDB8fHx8MTc
Save teacher librarians (opens the original)
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One in three Australian children can’t read proficiently. We are removing the one specialist whose entire job is that problem.<img alt="assorted title book lot" class="sizing-normal" height="3529" src="https://images.unspl
Is it a novel? A play? Or film? (opens the original)
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One of the most common questions I get asked is about choosing form - how does screenwriting differ from prose differ from playwriting? And how do you choose each one?Most of us don’t choose our form. We inherit it. We write plays because we came up through theatre, or novels because that’s what we read, or screenplays because we watched a lot of films at an impressionable age. The form arrives before the idea does, and then we pour the idea into it and hope it sets.<a class="image-link image2 i
The advent of ATARmaxxing (opens the original)
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This week, Queensland’s arts education crisis got a new set of given circumstances, and they arrived from two directions at once.On 27 August, the peer-reviewed education blog EduResearch Matters, run by the Australian Association for Research in Education, published a piece by QUT’s Gavin Sade and Sandra Gattenhof with a title that stopped me mid-scroll: “ATARmaxxing: the way it changes what students choose now and what schools offer.” The day before, a coalition o
The Winter Read (opens the original)
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