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Posted on 26 February 2012
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Posted on 24 February 2012
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You can now see INSIDE my new …

You can now see INSIDE my new ebook here: http://t.co/ympb7VPg

Posted on 22 February 2012
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New and Notable, Andypedia surely is http://t.co/M2tynYf5 The VERY useful new ebook from @andygbooks available now http://t.co/zMEwjMtb

Posted on 17 February 2012
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Posted on 17 February 2012
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Just Doomed! Tour

Thursday 22nd March
4pm – An Afternoon with Andy Griffiths
Venue: The Werribee Plaza Library, cnr Derrimut + Heath Roads, Werribee
Free event, bookings essential. Phone 03 9748 9333
Bookseller: Collins Werribee

Friday 23rd March
4.00pm – Book Signing at Book & Paper, 20 Ferguson Street, Williamstown VIC 3016
For enquiries please contact 03 9397 7784

Saturday 24th March
Book Signing at Big W Eastlands
Time: 12.00pm
Venue: Big W, Eastlands S/C, 175 Maroondah Hwy Ringwood
For all enquiries 03 9870 9337

Sunday 25th March
1.00pm – 1.30pm
Meet Andy Griffiths at Children’s Book Festival (hosted by The Wheeler Centre Melbourne)
Venue: Performance Space, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Enquiries: phone 03 9094 7800
Bookseller: Readings

3.00pm – 3.30pm
Meet Andy Griffiths at Children’s Book Festival (hosted by The Wheeler Centre Melbourne)
Venue: Performance Space, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Enquiries: phone 03 9094 7800
Bookseller: Readings

Monday 26th March
An Evening with Andy Griffiths
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Westgarth Theatre, 89 High Street, Northcote VIC
Free event, bookings essential. Contact Readings Booksellers 03 9347 6633

Thursday 29th March
An Afternoon with Andy Griffiths
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: Palace Cinema, 99 Norton Street, Leichhardt NSW
Free event, bookings essential. Contact Shearers Bookshop 02 9572 7766

Saturday 31st March
Book Signing at Unleash Miranda
Time: 11.00am
Venue: Unleash Miranda. Shop 1034-1036 Level 1, Westfield S/C, Miranda
Enquiries: 02 9525 9460

Monday 2nd April
An Evening with Andy Griffiths
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Aquinas College, Mount Henry Road, Salters Point Perth WA
entry by gold coin donation. Bookings essential through Dymocks Garden City 08 9450 0660

Tuesday 3rd April
2.00pm
Outside Broadcast on ABC 720 Perth Afternoons
Venue: Centre Stage, Lakeside Shopping Centre, Joondalup
LIVE radio interview + book signing

Tuesday 3rd April
An Evening with Andy Griffiths
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Ellenbrook Primary School, 65 Fortescue Avenue, Ellenbrook WA
Free event, bookings essential. Contact Dymocks Ellenbrook 08 6296 6206

Thursday 5th April
An Afternoon with Andy Griffiths
Time: 11.00am
Venue: Memorial Hall, Sale VIC
Free event, bookings essential. Contact Collins Bookseller Sale 03 5144 6262

Thursday 26th April
6.00pm – An Evening w/ Andy Griffiths
Venue: Tramsheds Function Centre Inveresk Rail Yards, 4 Invermay Rd, Inveresk, Launceston
Free event, bookings required through Petrarch’s Bookshop (03 6331 8088)

Friday 27th April
6.00pm – An Evening w/ Andy Griffiths
Venue: Hobart City Hall, Macquarie Street, Hobart
Free event, bookings required through Dymocks 03 6231 6656
Bookseller: Dymocks Hobart (contact: Kate Campbell)

Posted on 10 February 2012
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Dear Andy …

Dear Andy,

I’m very good at writing and making up stories too. Especially comedy and when I’m acting. My dream is to become a famous actress, director, writer, plasticine animator, critic or anything like that but most importantly NOT to become a loser like my brothers. Sometimes I’m very scared for my future and worried how am I gonna turn out because I’m always feeling that I don’t have an example and I haven’t done anything “constructive” for my future career, so I’m writing this so you could give me a heads up about what I could do for myself to start me career because … I KNOW NOTHING!!! Perhaps you could tell me how to get discovered without knowing ‘people’, how to make and publish a book, how actors are hired, how directors show their ideas for a movie etc. I would be very grateful if you could me help me and tell me a thing or two. Thank you 4 reading, Adara

 

Hi Adara,

Thanks so much for your letter.  You have a very strong writing voice—that is, you have the ability to transmit your personality through your writing—and that’s a great natural talent.

My advice to you would be to find the thing you like doing the most (whether it’s acting, directing, writing, plasticine-animating or a combination of any of these) and then really go into it. Explore it. Practice it. Read about it. Practice it. Look for every opportunity where you can learn more about (eg. books, internet, events, teachers). And did I say to practice it? Well, just in case I didn’t: Practice it! It’s fairly unlikely you’ll get better at a particular skill or artform just by thinking about it … you have to actually do it. In his book ‘Outliers’, Malcolm Gladwell has studied many hundreds of successful people and found that along the way to mastery of their field they have all put in a minimum of (at the very least) ten thousand hours of practice. So start wracking up those hours as soon and as often as possible.

I got better at writing by setting myself the goal of writing for at least 10 minutes every day in a blank book. Memories, dreams, thoughts … it didn’t matter. As long as I kept writing for 10 minutes every day. After a few weeks I found 10 minutes wasn’t enough time to get it all down. As writing became easier and easier I found more and more ideas came to me and I had to spend longer and longer periods writing them all down. Ten minutes a day turned into fifteen minutes a day turned into half an hour turned into an hour and many days two hours. You can’t fail to get better at something if you practice. Before long I had many notebooks filled with many thousands of ideas, some of which eventually became the basis for the JUST series stories.

Of course you may commit to one thing and eventually find that’s it not as fulfilling as you thought. But that is progress. You’ll be one step closer to finding the thing that really is yours to do … the one thing you can do better than anybody else. For me it has turned out to be writing funny stories for children. But I didn’t know that when I set out. I just knew I liked writing and committed to the process. The more I wrote the more the destination started to present itself. But in the beginning I had no idea where I was going – I just had a sincere desire to find out everything I could about writing and creating stories that would captivate the attention of a reader.

Even if your eventual talent turns out not to be writing, writing is still a powerful tool to help clarify your thoughts and ideas about what it is that you DO want to do. It’s a way of being able to ‘hear’ yourself amidst the endless jumble and torrent of your thoughts. A famous and excellent book on the subject of writing practice that I can whole-heartedly recommend is Natalie Goldberg’s ‘Writing Down the Bones’ (Shambhala Press).

My very best wishes to you, and don’t forget to have fun along the way—enjoying yourself in the process is crucial because it will mean that you’ll want to come back to whatever you’re doing again and again and again. And whether you ultimately become ‘famous’ or not won’t even matter in the end because you’ll be getting such enormous fulfillment from the very thing you’ve chosen to do itself. But you have to go into it deeply and seriously. And you have to practice.

Andy

 

 

Posted on 5 February 2012
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-03

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Posted on 3 February 2012
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