5 x 5 x 5

5x5x5 was hosted within the Library on the Friday afternoon of the Festival.  It consisted of Sarah Lawrence, a journalist for WIN, Penny Holloway, a blogger for Country Racing, Christine McGinn, a journalist for Bendigo Weekly, Kathie Bolitho, director of Tough Cookie Marketing and Danielle Wheeldon, author of The Nerdy Birdy. In summary, it was a group of successful woman in different literary areas of various ages.The ladies sat in a panel and discussed the variety of mediums available to express their writing in the modern and less textually literate world.

At first, I only attended this sitting for a way to kill time, however it did present a lot of insight into world I knew very little about. The most helpful was the affirmation I received from Penny Holloway about blogging. The internet is a harsh, vast universe and in order to succeed, one has to be interesting and able to tolerate the negatives that may come from posting a blog. She expressed that writing in the way one would speak and spacing things out for simplicity, will be more effective then long, block paragraphs.

I suppose I never considered there was an art to a blog. Now it seems to me less like a diary, whining and searching for some kind of solace, and more like an avenue of creativity.