Festive

Hurrah! My city is holding the Perth Writers Festival in February 2006!


Words cannot express my esteem for Writers Festivals. It's a festival of writing! Hundreds of people, sitting at rows of desks, quietly beavering away at novels, poems and essays! All the fun and smell of a high school exam, without the distracting element of youth! Brilliant! I can't wait!


Update: Upon further investigation, I have discovered that a Writers Festival is not a festival of writing, apparently. It is a festival of talking, in much the same way that a Music Festival involves sitting around talking about music, and a Harvest Festival consists of lengthy panel discussions about pumpkins. Sorry for the confusion.


Update Update: Additional research has revealed that Music Festivals are in fact about people playing music, and Harvest Festivals are about people growing food. I really don't understand why Writers Festivals aren't about writing. Perhaps it's a marketing thing - Writers Festival sounds a lot more highbrow than Whining Ratbags Who Bitch Incessantly About How Everyone Is Less Enlightened Than They Are, & Also George W Bush Is The Anti-Christ Festival. That would explain it.