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    The Wait

    February 5, 2021
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    A little bit has been happening over the last couple of months. First up, I’ve just submitted my entry into round 1 of the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge. You may recall I’ve had success in this competition in the past. This year I was tasked with writing a ghost story featuring an exchange student…

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    It’s been a while…

    December 3, 2020
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    Where has the time gone? It’s been over a year since my previous post. That’s a long time. And I wish I had an excuse for it. I wish I could say my silence was writing related, that I’ve signed some publishing agreement that forbids me from talking about my soon-to-be-published work. Or I wish…

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    Honourable Mention – NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge

    June 18, 2019
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    | Categories: NYC Midnight, screenwriting

    My first foray into screenwriting has been a success! Of sorts. I took part in the 2019 NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge, and although I didn’t win (or come close) judges did find my entry worthy of an honourable mention. So here is my short comedic screenplay Catfish, for your (script) reading pleasure.   For reference,…

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    Posted in NYC Midnight, screenwriting Tagged amwriting, nycmidnight, screenwriting 1 Comment

    Success! – Furious Fiction May 2019

    May 25, 2019
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    | Categories: Australian Writers Centre, flash fiction, Furious Fiction, News & Blog, Short Stories

    Since the beginning of the year, by popular demand*, I have been blogging about my entries into the Australian Writers Centre’s Furious Fiction competition. In May’s Furious Fiction, I finally cracked the winners’ circle. No, I didn’t win the five hundred dollars. But my entry, CARDIAC ARREST, was long-listed for the big bucks. (For my…

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    Posted in Australian Writers Centre, flash fiction, Furious Fiction, News & Blog, Short Stories Tagged amwriting, flashfiction, furiousfiction 2 Comments

    It’s time you met the real Dracula

    February 26, 2019
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    If you haven’t read Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic Dracula, go out and find a copy now. My friend had been recommending it stridently for many years, but only recently did it catch my eye in an airport bookshop. I was looking for a romp that would keep me distracted on a long flight, which pitted…

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    Posted in blog, Crime, fantasy, Literary, News & Blog, Novels, Uncategorized Tagged blog, bramstoker, dracula, Thriller 1 Comment

    Furious Fiction – Holidays With Rover

    February 10, 2019
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    | Categories: Australian Writers Centre, blog, competition, flash fiction, Furious Fiction, Short Stories, Uncategorized

    (Shortcut to story: Holidays with Rover). When the email announcing the first Furious Fiction of the year popped into my inbox, I was in a car with my little family driving to a caravan park on the South Coast of New South Wales. I doubted I would have time to submit an entry, so all…

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    In Appreciation of Long Sentences

    February 3, 2019
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    Long sentences are bad, we are told. The enemy of plain English. Today the average sentence is 14.4 words long, and that’s less than a quarter of what it was 200 years ago. The UK Government has gone as far as to mandate a maximum count of 25 words in official publications. (For reference, if…

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    Posted in blog, Genre Fiction, language, News & Blog, Writing, Writing tips Tagged amwriting, blog, jackreacher, LeeChild, LeeChildReacher, longsentences 2 Comments

    Furious Fiction – Walpiri

    December 1, 2018
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    | Categories: Australian Writers Centre, competition, flash fiction, Furious Fiction, Short Stories, Uncategorized, Writing

    Next up is my first Furious Fiction entry for March 2018: Walpiri. This is my first entry into the competition. I’m not sure I quite captured what I was after, but I only had 500 words and three days, so maybe I was shooting too high. I’ve simplified since. The elements for this month: The…

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    Furious Fiction – Gate 47

    November 18, 2018
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    For the past little while I’ve been entering a flash fiction writing competition run by the Australian Writers Centre. At 5pm on the first Friday of each month, the AWC reveals three elements that must be included in a story with a maximum of 500 words. You’ve got until midnight on Sunday – just over…

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    What you may not have noticed about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    August 19, 2018
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    | Categories: blog, Book Review, Crime, girl with the dragon tattoo, stieg larsson

    I want to say a few quick words about Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy (aka The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and friends). It took me a while to figure out why I’ve been enjoying these books so much, but I think I’ve finally nailed it. It’s the characters So many novels these days are based…

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