some posts are now friends only.

Quite a few of my posts are friends-only as these posts are poems and writings I hope to eventually get published or are currently submitted to journals, waiting to be rejected. If you're interested in reading them just comment this thread and I'll add you :)

Today I went to a workshop put on by the Queensland Writers Centre all about building believable sci-fi/fantasy worlds for stories. It was run by Sonny Whitelaw--author of a heap of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis novels that, I think, were also turned into episodes of the series.

It was really really good and gave me a lot of things to think ( Read more... )

Should probably update my journal again ( Read more... )

So I may not have updated this journal for three months.... whoops, sorry about that ( Read more... )

 

A while ago (or, four posts ago because I'm shit at updating) I posted the prologue of the steam-punk novel I'm trying to write, Wingbones ( Read more... )

So flicked on ABC while eating lunch and the National Press Club was on. Some Liberal personal taling about why they lost the election, blame the unions blah blah blah ( Read more... )

We got back from japan yesterday morning.

WIll write a big blog about it when i get around to it... or helen will and i will just link to hers.

Twas all awesome.

Found out during the trip that i somehow got 3 distinctions this semester... not sure how i did that.

Dentist today... big ugly hole on my tooth... then back to woolies :(

Got 38/50 for my Screenwriting assignment (the script). Which is -just- a 6 (distinction). My overall mark for the subject is 75%... which, also, is probably -just- scraping in at a 6 for the subject.

I'll be happy with that seeing screenwriting is my least favourite form of creative writing.

So I just retyped (again) the intro to my novel and am now confident enough to post it. It's still far from finished and still needs some ironing out but the idea is all there. Basically the entire story is in Third-Person Past Tense but the intro is First Person Present Tense. I have my reasons.

Oh, and I've just done a straight copy/paste from ( Read more... )