Write a scene with you and a character as totally unlike you as you can get, and put the two of you in a situation: e.g. a teacher puts you and the other person together, over your objections, to work on an assignment.** #I decided to not have this topic focus on me, rather two characters who are totally unlike
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Teacher’s Pet I’ve been Cindy’s teacher since kindergarten. She’d always been such a good girl: polite, eager to please, conscientious, smart. But now she’s a teenager. She’s rebelling at the moment: talks back, smokes, hangs out with a bad crowd, and is sending
Read moreWrite a conversation which consists entirely of questions** Centre of Attention “Why did you have to steal my thunder, Maggie?!” “I didn’t steal your thunder at all, Esther! Why would you say that?” “Why would you choose my wedding day to announce your pregnancy and make my day all about you?!” “Why not? You’re my best friend, aren’t you happy
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – April 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Centre of Attention “Why did you have to steal my thunder, Maggie?!” “I didn’t steal your thunder at all, Esther! Why would you say that?” “Why would you choose my wedding day to announce your pregnancy and make my day all about you?!”
Read moreIn earlier blog posts, I talked about my decision to try a new type of virtual run challenge, the Conqueror Virtual Challenges, as well as my completion of the following challenges: I have since completed my twenty-fourth Conqueror Virtual Challenge, Kruger. The Kruger Virtual Challenge takes participants on a route “across one of the largest natural wildlife reserves in South
Read moreAs mentioned in the first blog post in this series, I’ll be writing analysis content on all 60+ Disney animated feature films and their film making eras. The third era is the Silver Age, which ran from 1950 to 1967 and started with Cinderella. As mentioned in a previous blog post, the Silver Age is also known as the “restoration age,” as the films
Read moreTake a motorbike journey through time.** Return Trip I love riding my white Harley through time. I can’t tell you how or why the time-travelling Harley showed up on my doorstep. I just woke up one morning and found it there. When I went for my first ride, it was an early Autumn morning in 2020 and I was wearing
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – March 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Return Trip I love riding my white Harley through time. I can’t tell you how or why the time-travelling Harley showed up on my doorstep. I just woke up one morning and found it there. When I went for my first ride, it
Read moreIn a piece of descriptive writing, show us where we are by reference to three objects. Be subtle** Date Night? It was always captivating to watch the machine popping the corn. It was always funny to think that a vegetable could be transformed into something so light, fluffy, buttery and salty that could be mindlessly eaten whilst watching a film
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – February 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Date Night? It was always captivating to watch the machine popping the corn. It was always funny to think that a vegetable could be transformed into something so light, fluffy, buttery and salty that could be mindlessly eaten whilst watching a film on
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