Half baked panel ideas for a hypothetical festival

Say, hypothetically speaking, you were asked to come up with some panel ideas for an upcoming festival.

On writing.

And you came up with a few half-baked ideas and they really went for them, but then you were forced to actually come up with the goods. What would you do?

So, seeing as you’re an occasional blogger, the first panel might be something about blogging.

The best who live in Sydney?

• Frockwriter
• Sydney Observatory
• City of Sound
• Nosey In Newtown
• Fresh and New

Who would you choose? What would you make them talk about? How do you avoid the dreaded love-in that usually happens at these things?

On another panel, you might want some proper writers. Like novelists and journalists. Being a festival, about writing. But because you’re obsessed with music, it has to have a music element.

Do you get silly?

• how music ruined me and saved me as a writer
• are lyrics good love advice?

Or serious?

• if music has gone through a billion changes and revolutions and genre-births – sampling, mash-ups, etc – how come writing hasn’t quite followed suit?” (Twittering and mobile phone novels aside.)

Or do you just throw that all away and put a bunch of writers and musicians on a stage together and stage and let them battle it out?

As you can see this is all just a ruse to get my blog posting up. There’s no way a festival would ever ask for panel ideas this half-baked.