Would the last person to leave please turn off the lights?** The Next Chapter The house is finished. After six months of painting, shifting furniture, and fixing things, my house is finally complete. To celebrate and say thank you to all of the tradies who helped me, I invited them over for dinner. I made a toast to them for
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—August 2021 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s first sentence must contain only four words. Your story must include something being shared. Your story must include the words PAINT, SHIFT, WAVE and TOAST. (Longer variations were accepted as long as original spelling was retained.) *** The Next Chapter The house is finished. After
Read moreSo it’s December 1 and NaNoWriMo 2021 is officially over, so how did I go? My goal for NaNoWriMo 2021 was to write as much as possible and complete as many of my writing projects as possible. While I did manage to write 9,508 words in total, I didn’t complete as many writing projects as I set out to, due
Read moreI spent the final two days of NaNoWriMo 2021 writing an article for my freelance writing job. I wrote 700 words in total by the end of Day 30.
Read moreI made no progress on Day 28 of NaNoWriMo 2021.
Read moreWrite a piece where we become aware that the person’s crying – but you never tell us that.** Until Death Do Us Part I never thought I’d be doing this. Where are the tissues? I met Clancy fifteen years ago, it was totally romantic (and admittedly cliché). I was at an art gallery opening, talking to a friend of mine,
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—November 2021 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include someone PACKING A SUITCASE. Your story must include the phrase “ACROSS A CROWDED ROOM” (as dialogue or narrative). Your story must include the words CHARM, CRUSH and FAINT. (Longer variations were accepted as long as original spelling was retained.) *** Until Death Do
Read moreI made no progress on days 26-27 of NaNoWriMo 2021.
Read moreI spent days 23-25 of NaNoWriMo 2021 completing two articles for my freelance writing job. On Day 25, when I submitted the articles, I wrote 1,600 words in total.
Read moreI spent Day 22 of NaNoWriMo 2021 continuing the draft of my analysis article, Exploration of the afterlife on television: The Good Place vs Upload. I also started my first draft of a short story for Furious Fiction – August 2021. I wrote 828 words in total.
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