Struggling to keep up.
This was an entry for Writing Battle, which is a concept that I still find amazing and fascinating. You write something under 1000 words that follows a few prompts, then it goes to “battle” against another story and a group of folks vote on who wins. Meanwhile, you do the same for another group, reading […]
This one was for the NQW Podcast competition too, as if I remember right you could throw in as many entries as you wished. About two hours from the deadline I banged this one out too. At least I think it was anyway. I can’t honestly remember, but I know it had the usual list […]
The Not Quite Write podcast puts on a pretty cool competition every few months. Good folks, and the best part is that they fire up an old-school forum for people to chat and get to know each other, then eventually post their pieces and have others critique them. I even made a new friend on […]
This was another Furious Fiction, February I think? Yep, found it, here’s the prompts: Each story’s first sentence had to include something being POPPED. Each story had to include a character referencing a FILM title. Each story had to include the words LEAP, BOTTLE and SHADOW. (Longer variations were okay if original spelling was retained.) […]
Types of Communities There are all kinds of communities for writers in Australia, I’d reckon, but mostly what I’ve found is either Facebook Groups or actual organisations. My experiences with both are hit-and-miss. Groups Hits happen when I’m on a FB group that does more than just post memes about how writing makes you crazy […]