Author Archives: Rach Loveday

Upload – Season 3, Episode 2 (Strawberry)

Now that the premiere has come and gone, the season can really get underway. The episode kicks off with a teenage boy watching a news cast revealing that Freeyond has shut its doors permanently (effectively ending Nathan and Nora’s mission to take them down), and trying to find information about Ludds online. We then hear Nathan and Nora approach the

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Upload – Season 3 Premiere (Ticking Clock)

The job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs and subplots for the season, as well as expand on story arcs and subplots set up in the previous season’s finale. This premiere did its job perfectly. The end of the second season left us with Nathan being downloaded and seemingly starting to die, Nathan and Nora finally

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Conqueror Virtual Challenge – Paris

In 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 my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth Conqueror Virtual Challenges: the English Channel, the Inca Trail, Mount Fuji, Angkor Wat, Marathon to Athens, the Berlin Wall, the Amalfi Coast , and Easter Island respectively. I have since completed my

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John Marsden Writing Topic #255

The only weed in the garden** Neighbourhood Watch She moved into the street six weeks ago and ruined everything. Our street was open – everyone was friendly, we all went to each other’s houses, we all borrowed things from each other, we all know everything about each other and we don’t mind. We’re like a family. She made it clear

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Furious Fiction – October 2023

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – October 2023 short story competition was as follows: *** Neighbourhood Watch She moved into the street six weeks ago and ruined everything. Our street was open – everyone was friendly, we all went to each other’s houses, we all borrowed things from each other, we all know everything about each other and

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NYC Midnight 100-Word Microfiction Challenge 2023

Earlier this year I entered the NYC Midnight 100-word Microfiction Challenge, an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to write original 100-word stories by giving them a specific genre, action and word assignment, in 24 hours. Every writer is placed in a specific group based on the genre, action and word assignment they are given. The competition judges pick 15

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Disney Era Analysis – My ranking of the Wartime Era films

Now that I’ve watched and written analysis pieces on the six animated feature films of the Wartime Era: Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, I’m going to rank them from my least favourite to my favourite. 6 – Fun and Fancy Free Fun and Fancy

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