well arrived home on Monday night after my stay on the Gold Coast.  I had a fab time at the RWA national convention.  I learned a lot of things about writing techniquest, some general and other genre specific.  I did an awesome workshop on textiles and materials and got to handle reproduction samples.  And I attended 3 cocktail parties and dinners ( Read more... )

Lifted from girliejones(via callistraTwelfth Planet Press is looking for unique novellas to publish in our novella series ( Read more... )

it is a few years since I pimped this site, so it is probably time to give it another go.

Creative Writing Prompts is an excellent site for practicing some random writing excercises.  It was one of the sites recommended during the writers conference for those times when you are blocked and just want to get writing again ( Read more... )

I have just finished my first day at the Romance Writers of Australia Annual Convention, held in Sydney again this year.  I went once before, when it was in Sydney 3 years ago ( Read more... )

and now, thanks to callistra , I have just found out it is NaNoWriMo.

I guess as I'm currently unemployed I should do some more writing on my novels.  hmmmmm

I can't believe that it is after midnight and still so fucking hot ( Read more... )

study is going ok, I'm nearly finished all the required topics for my first exam.  (We were given outlines of the areas being examined, kinda cheating but I don't care).  I have already read over about 3 of the case studies, so I need to learn probably another three.

sirtwist has just finished playing Halo 2.  In all, it was about 20 hours of gameplay.  ( Read more... )

This site is called Creative Writing Prompts  and it is hella cool.  There are all kinds of ideas for writers, whether you want to write fiction or do journaling ( Read more... )

this is a new form of poetry (kinda abstract) that I have just found out about.  There are five lines, so it is called a cinquaine.  The structure goes as follows:

* First Line:  A one-word title  (must be a noun)
* Second Line:  A two-word phrase related to the subject
* Third Line:  Three adjectives describing the subject
* Fourth Line:  A four- ( Read more... )