Author Christine M Knight’s Blog
Saturday, February 22, 2014
LIFE SONG excerpt - Chapter 2
"We do all the top artists’ hits as well as the golden oldies,” Tony began as he, Mavis and the band grouped together behind the band tent, unplugged guitars in hand, the drummer with his sticks. The sounds and life at the showground were a blurred backdrop to them.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Distinctly Visual - dance video analysis
The dance video at http://youtu.be/5HdLfeX6d78 is a 90 second dance representation of the central plot of the novel In and Out of Step by Christine M Knight and its key ideas-belonging, alienation, finding a place.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Country Muster
It's Summer, hot, and humid in my part of Australia. I've just come back from the Country Muster. The muster is a music festival held at our local showground and venues throughout the nearby township over this weekend.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
A Model for the Modern Woman
In the absence of a traditional blog, I thought I'd share this observation about images sold to women with you. Hope you enjoy it.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
'Life Song' excerpt - Chapter 1
Teams of boys and men weighed down and backwards in a tug-of war, straining not only to hold their ground but also to budge the other side forward. In that moment as Mavis Mills watched the battle, the struggle seemed frozen, a sculpture of intense exertion.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
The road to 'Life Song'
‘Life Song’ grew out of concerns and questions about life that the women and men I interviewed shared. Many women and men had questions about plotting a course through life in uncharted territory and about what made life worth living, what gave it meaning.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
MY WRITING PROCESS: CHRISTINE M KNIGHT
When I finally committed to actually writing fiction rather planning to do it, I envisaged a whole world with a community of characters whose lives intersected and diverged as the issues and concerns of their respective lives and the times brought them in and out of contact.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Why was Kiama chosen for the book launch of 'Life Song'?
I drew on the Kiama landscape in the creation of the fictional coastal town of Keimera which features in both In and Out of Step and Life Song. That fictional landscape also draws on the NSW towns of Camden, Goulburn, and Bungendore. My maternal family have also lived in Kiama for over thirty four years.
Friday, October 25, 2013
DANCE REVIEW: DUTI COMPANY - 2013 SYDNEY FRINGE FESTIVAL
A highlight of the Sydney Fringe Festival for me was the performance by DUTI - a professional dance company based in Sydney. Interlude was choreographed and directed by Mathew Mizyed, founder of DUTI Company.