Recently, I came across this much-seen talk by Simon Sinek, where he describes a model for inspiring action and change. Essentially, Sinek suggests that for a…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 20, 2016
After looking back last week at the tools and teaching on writing that I received at university, I was struck at how much of the following years…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 26, 2014
I. What is the value of a creative writing course? Mine was completed over three years, with an additional honours year for a creative writing…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 26, 2014
A discussion yesterday about the practice of editing on paper against editing electronically branched off into an interesting tangent: just how attached are we to…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeFebruary 16, 2014
Late last year I wrote a post about the conventions and use of quotation marks when writing dialogue. And not that I want to reopen the debate…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014
Quotation marks are odd things. I guess this is true of most punctuation marks, but I find quotation marks especially odd. Ostensibly there to mark…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014
Recently I finished reading John Safran’s new true crime book Murder in Mississippi, and like most in the genre, it was clear that the bulk of…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014
For several years during and after I finished at university, I wrote scripts. Mostly for screen, though a few for stage performance. I would hazard…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014
It is often said in filmmaking that when making a film, you get to create the story three times. Once in preproduction, mostly through the…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014