Reduce, Replace, Return…
These are the three simple words displayed across the screen as the theme of our Lent this year. It’s quite impossible to escape Lent, since I work in an education setting that places certain importance in upholding this (and other Christian) ritual. And each year, I have a semi-serious conversation with my husband about what else we’re giving up during Lent season, apart from honouring the tradition of consuming no red meat on Fridays. In the past, we have reduced our Coke/soft...
Read MoreSuper-Important Announcement – Competition
I promoted this competition to a few people today. To give some fairness to these people, I have decided to extend the competition below until next Saturday, 3 March 2012. The winner will definitely be announced on Sunday, 4 March. So there’s still time – put your creative hats and keep those entries coming!
Read MoreJudgement Day Done & Dusted
Today is D-day; the day I finally received some critique on the first 10 pages of Peeling Layers from all my peers in Queensland Writers’ Centre Year of the Edit class. Just like anyone entering unchartered territory, I immediately thought of the worst thing that could possibly happen. This was somewhat compounded when the facilitator said, sympathetically, that it could be hard to listen to everyone criticising your work, and that if it got too much, I (and two others whose work were...
Read MoreDeja Vu
It’s February. It’s ‘conference month’ (I have dubbed this month as ‘failed writing month’ as well, but that’s another post altogether). Unlike the previous two years, over this week and the next, I will be making the trip down the Coast in three separate occasions. I will be concentrating on assisting the logistics of three clusters one at a time instead of running around like a headless chook trying to set up three clusters in three different venues...
Read MoreInaugural Competition – Extended until 3 March!
In honour of my husband’s birthday today, I am running my first-ever competition. I am currently in the middle of finishing the first draft of ‘Evelyn’ (working title only – by default, I just title my novels based on the main female protagonist’s name). You can find the synopsis and a little excerpt here. Originally, I have set Evelyn’s former occupation (prior to the home invasion incident) to be a music teacher. After an ill-fated home invasion, she...
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