Comments for Literati http://melissawatts.net writing, reading, society Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:34:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 by Melissa Watts http://melissawatts.net/2012/01/21/australian-women-writers-challenge-2012/#comment-193 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:34:05 +0000 http://melissawatts.net/?p=277#comment-193 Thanks Margaret, I agree that this is a fantastic initiative. It only takes a small amount of time to participate but will hopefully make a real difference.

]]> Comment on Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 by Margaret Lynette Sharp http://melissawatts.net/2012/01/21/australian-women-writers-challenge-2012/#comment-192 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:42:15 +0000 http://melissawatts.net/?p=277#comment-192 Hi, Melissa. I’m (hopefully) and emerging Australian woman writer, with books in several Sydney libraries including Sutherland. My main focus is modern short stories, although my most recent publication is a light-hearted philosophical book, 60 Questions, Insights and Reminiscences. As a newcomer to book publication, I can vouch for the difficulty of getting established, and therefore I especially welcome the initiative of this writing challenge.

]]> Comment on Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 by Melissa Watts http://melissawatts.net/2012/01/21/australian-women-writers-challenge-2012/#comment-187 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:14:12 +0000 http://melissawatts.net/?p=277#comment-187 Thanks Sallie, her novels are an interesting example of early Australian women novelists. I think you will enjoy reading them from a historical perspective.

]]> Comment on Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 by salliemuirden http://melissawatts.net/2012/01/21/australian-women-writers-challenge-2012/#comment-185 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:16:58 +0000 http://melissawatts.net/?p=277#comment-185 Thanks for this information about Rosa Praed, Melissa. I will look up her writing…

]]> Comment on Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 by Melissa Watts http://melissawatts.net/2012/01/21/australian-women-writers-challenge-2012/#comment-180 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:31:07 +0000 http://melissawatts.net/?p=277#comment-180 Hi Elizabeth, I’m looking forward to the challenge, thanks for setting it up. Would love to do a guest review especially about Rosa Praed, would love to get her novels out there more. I will send you through an email.
AWW Wednesdays sound like a great idea.

]]> Comment on Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 by Elizabeth Lhuede http://melissawatts.net/2012/01/21/australian-women-writers-challenge-2012/#comment-179 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:12:31 +0000 http://melissawatts.net/?p=277#comment-179 Thanks for joining and promoting the AWW 2012 Challenge, Melissa. How interesting that you wrote your thesis on Rosa Praed. It would be great to have something of hers reviewed for the AWW blog. Would you consider being a “guest reviewer”?

In case anyone reading this didn’t see The Age article by Jane Sullivan, it appeared online on the Sydney Morning Herald website link here: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/a-womans-place-20120113-1pyoa.html

Melissa, I hope you’ll follow the AWW discussions using the #AWW2012 hashtag and join in on AWW Wednesdays when a few of us plan to visit other participants’ blogs and read the reviews (and post a link to the ones we read on Twitter).

I look forward to perhaps hearing from you re the guest review.

@ElizabethLhuede

]]> Comment on About by Melissa Watts http://melissawatts.net/about/#comment-129 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:49:49 +0000 http://melissawatts.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-129 I’m not entirely sure that you understand the Greer piece correctly.

As an aside the piece actually has the highest hits of any of the pieces on my site, and directs the most search engine readers.

]]> Comment on About by Martin F. Mayhem http://melissawatts.net/about/#comment-128 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:51:28 +0000 http://melissawatts.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-128 Came across your blog while searching MTR. Ugh! Some advice, little sister; being sincere and honest will help your career immensely. As for your interests; let’s see: writing, reading, media, and politics. Hmmm. It took about five seconds to identify what was missing from the list – Feminism.

Let me try another term. How about Myopic Feminista? By all means do a blog for yes-people, your friends, and your mother; and come what may for a future you hope transcends a cross-section of people. Ahem, good luck with that.

Don’t re-read what is dated writing from a now-bitter Germaine Greer, read Christina Hoff Sommers or Esther Vilar’s work and opine on why you disagree with them. And I’m betting you’d disagree with them strongly. Challenge yourself and be different to the herd that all goes in the same direction.

If this blog is in fact a strong indication of your sexual orientation then disregard this message and knock yourself out with as much Andrea Dworkin and Ruby Rose as you can ingest.

But I sense you’re yet another smart young woman in our midst that is being lost to a leftist, feminist-dominated education system that erroneously sees our world through Greer/Steinem/Gillard mindsets.

]]> Comment on About by Margot http://melissawatts.net/about/#comment-112 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:25:10 +0000 http://melissawatts.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-112 I’m interested in the Percy Leason connection.

]]> Comment on Utopian Man by Lisa Lang by Melissa Watts http://melissawatts.net/2011/02/06/utopian-man-by-lisa-lang/#comment-105 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:50:56 +0000 http://melissawatts.net/?p=181#comment-105 I adore it. Thanks for your comment.

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