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The Spam I Get

June 16, 2017
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| Categories: blog, Humor, Humour, News & Blog

This website gets a lot of spam. Most it is in Russian or is trying to update me on the latest developments in erectile disfunction management, but sometimes those spam-bots are just downright friendly. For example: ‘You are a very intelligent person!’ – Abet Spzoo Thanks, Abet Spzoo. The internet can be a quiet and…

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Readying the Dead

June 11, 2017
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| Categories: blog, competition, Crime, Genre Fiction, Humor, Humour, News & Blog, NYC Midnight, Short Stories, Short Story Challenge, Writing

The winners of the 2017 NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge have just been announced, and I am pleased to announce I am one of them! Sort of. My final story landed me an ‘honourable mention’, sufficient for a handful of minor prizes, but just outside the cash. I’m totally excited about the outcome and proud…

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Posted in blog, competition, Crime, Genre Fiction, Humor, Humour, News & Blog, NYC Midnight, Short Stories, Short Story Challenge, Writing Tagged amwriting, nycmidnight, ShortStoryChallenge2017 3 Comments

Second Round Success!

May 5, 2017
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, blog, competition, Humor, Humour, News & Blog, NYC Midnight, Short Stories, Writing

For those of you who have been hanging out to see how I fared in the next round of the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge following my success in the first heat, I am pleased to announce that my next story, Crossing the Thin Blue Line, just won through the second heat! This time the…

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Posted in ACT Writers Centre, blog, competition, Humor, Humour, News & Blog, NYC Midnight, Short Stories, Writing Tagged comedy, nycmidnight, shortstory, ShortStoryChallenge2017 2 Comments

No Escape – My Award-Winning Short Story

March 21, 2017
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| Categories: blog, competition, maatsuyker, Short Stories

Ok, so the title might be a bit of an exaggeration, but a short story I wrote recently – No Escape – did just win the first heat of the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge. If you haven’t read any of my work before, this is a good place to start! Click here to read…

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Sonder

January 21, 2017
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| Categories: blog, Word of the Week, Writing, Writing tips

My word of the week is sonder. It’s not even a real word. According to the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, sonder means: The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around…

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A Belated Christmas Present – Five Fave Writing Resources

January 4, 2017
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, blog, Writing, Writing tips

If you, like me, love receiving a barrage of writing-related emails, or adding more expert writing advice to your already-can’t-quite-keep-up-with-it-all Facebook/Twitter feed, then have I got a belated Christmas gift for you. Below are five of my favourite online writing resources. Don’t dally – go sign up to their e-newsletters and social media feeds right…

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Pikachu just changed my life

October 21, 2016
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| Categories: blog, News & Blog, pikachu, pokemon, Writing, Writing tips

I just hatched a Pikachu from a 2km egg. The moment has changed my life. Let me explain. My boys and I have been playing Pokemon Go for a few weeks now. We have traveled dozens of kilometres together, caught hundreds of pokemon, battled a few gyms, hatched countless eggs. I even spend my lunch…

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My highlights: taking inspiration from the 2016 Canberra Writers Festival

October 4, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, Aoife Clifford, blog, CAPITAL LETTERS, Chris Uhlmann, Isobelle Carmody, Mark Tedeschi, Steve Lewis, writers festivals

Another article I wrote for the ACT Writers Centre, this time about my experience at the inaugural Canberra Writers Festival over 26-28 August 2016. The 2016 Canberra Writers Festival was my first major writing event. Among all the author interviews, book launches, panel discussions, writing workshops, festival artists, pop-up bookstores, signings, corridor networking, macaron towers,…

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World Building with Gillian Polack

July 21, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, blog, fantasy, Genre Fiction, Gillian Polack, science fiction, The Write Stuff, World building

Last night I spent two fabulous hours with author and academic Gillian Polack. Although our time was brief, Gillian quickly demonstrated why she is a renowned authority on the subject of world building. Here are the three lessons that most resonated with me (with my own little comments and extrapolations added): Start with the rocks…

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Independence Day: Resurgence is downright crazy

June 30, 2016
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| Categories: blog, Movie Review, Movies, Writing

Wow. Independence Day: Resurgence was certainly something. I’m just not sure what that something was. As a student of writing, I was completely flummoxed by this movie. It wasn’t that the dialogue was horrible (though mostly it was) or that the plot was poor (because it wasn’t, if considered only in the broadest terms), it…

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