Sitemap - 2025 - David Burton's Writing

Men's advice is batsh@*t

The stuff I can't talk about

i need help

Camp vol. 2

Is it possible to use AI without selling out?

Truth, interrupted: why Queensland needs its own reckoning

Pitching Plays, Essays & Big Ideas

How I'm Thinking About AI as a Creative Human

The Arts Bermuda Triangle

The Creative Reset

Halfway point

The three most powerful words

How's the business going?

Taylor Swift, Temple Run, and Mending a Broken Heart

It's go time

What if we treated actors like athletes?

A Gift For You

Why I became obsessed with Stephen King

What if you're not the problem?

Four schools in a fortnight

Returning to 'The Good Dad'

What Do You Do When You Feel Unworthy of Your Own Work?

First Nations collaboration in community-engaged performance

I’ve Been Thinking About the Stuckness

Daddy issues

I asked ChatGPT to double my income

Being an actor is hard

Don't listen to Mel Robbins

A Season of small shifts

The arts are a national asset

Ludo silences and video game silence

Why Creatives Avoid Help (And Why I Did Too)

The inevitable weirdness of writing for theatre-in-education

What I Learned in My First Month Coaching Creatives

Houses: a diary

FFS, how do you read so much?

We need to talk about publishing

The laws of working for a producer

Inspiration porn

The trouble with self-love

Teaching verbatim theatre

Nine books to open your mind

The scraps that bind us

Social media is dead

How to make Australian politics exciting

There's no such thing as genre

Writing for performing arts schools

Eleven Books for the New Year

First Day

Excuse me, I'd like to talk about Frozen

A framework for devising theatre work

The importance of bad writing

3 great books about video games

The other David

Cruel Summer