{"id":941,"date":"2012-06-04T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/?p=941"},"modified":"2019-12-15T01:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:38:51","slug":"the-emerging-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"The Emerging Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a writer? Someone who writes, not talks about writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emerging-Writer-Cover-EWF1-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-942 size-medium\" title=\"Emerging-Writer-Cover-EWF1\" src=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emerging-Writer-Cover-EWF1-1-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emerging-Writer-Cover-EWF1-1-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emerging-Writer-Cover-EWF1-1.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence is a contributor to the new anthology\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Emerging Writer<\/a>. His piece\u00a0is about mistaken identity and the funny job of finding ideas for comedy. If you aspire to be a novelist, journalist, blogger, comedian, critic or screenwriter &#8211; or just someone who wants to learn how not to procrastinate &#8211; this book has some very useful tips from some pretty ace people who do the writing thing for a living.<\/p>\n<p>A better description of the book can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/booki.sh\/titles\/9780646579528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and it&#8217;s also available in <a href=\"http:\/\/booki.sh\/titles\/9780646579528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ebook form<\/a> for those annoying people on trains with cool gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence will also appear at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Emerging Writers&#8217; Festival<\/a> (May 24 \u2013 June 3, 2012) a Melbourne institution that prides on calling itself the &#8220;Festival For Writers&#8221;. \u00a0There&#8217;s forums, panels, performances and cerebral piss-ups. There&#8217;s even a Spelling Bee competition where editors and writers can go head-to-head, arguing over the correct letters in &#8220;bivouacking&#8221; and &#8220;haemorrhage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the &#8220;ambassadors&#8221; for writers&#8217; conference, Lawrence will appear on panels and workshops about industry relationships, advice for emerging writers and the nitty-gritty of comedy performance. Come and heckle him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a writer? Someone who writes, not talks about writing. Lawrence is a contributor to the new anthology\u00a0The Emerging Writer. His piece\u00a0is about mistaken identity and the funny job of finding ideas for comedy. If you aspire to be a novelist, journalist, blogger, comedian, critic or screenwriter &#8211; or just someone who wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}