Author Archives: Rach Loveday

Conqueror Virtual Challenge – Cuba

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 the following challenges: I have since completed my forty-fifth Conqueror Virtual Challenge, Cuba. The Cuba Virtual Challenge takes participants on a journey “from Santiago to Havana on a 70-mile route inspired by the

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RFDS – Season 3, Episode 5

It’s Christmas in the outback in this episode and it’s not happy for everyone, and I’m going to review it character by character. Eliza and Pete Eliza and Pete spend most of the episode tending to frequent flyer, David, who has had five retrievals from a private medical retrieval service in the last six months. Eliza and Pete don’t find

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John Marsden Writing Topic #531

Write a story in which two events happen simultaneously.** Making History Well-behaved women seldom make history, that’s why I pulled my first “sickie.” I worked hard and sacrificed to get here, I was going to the Olympics no matter what. Olympic Stadium was ripe with Australian spirit and the optimism of the new millennium, it was so strong it could

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NYC Midnight 100-Word Microfiction Challenge 2025

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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