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Adventures in Podcasting 1
I’ve been meaning to record podcasts for some time and I’m also a big fan of new, shiny toys. This has led to one or two experiments in sound recording.
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The Death Star of New Bethlehem (Spec the Halls!)
This story is a part of the Spec the Halls contest for speculative winter holiday-themed fiction, artwork, and poetry. You may find guidelines and links to other entries at http://www.aswiebe.com/specthehalls.html
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Quick fiction
My year 9 class are writing disaster stories at the moment. I decided to write one too. It ended up being more or less a spin-off of The Event.
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Please Sir, can I have some more?
This week a story I wrote with the deliberately provocative title “Murray the Sex Machine” was published online by sentientonline.net, a relatively new Australian SF/Gaming/Philosophy/Fiction site. They have some interesting interviews with Australian authors, some science articles and now some of the greatest fiction ever written in the English ( Read more... ) -
Short story mode: ON!
I remember a time when 10,000 words was an enormous length for a piece of writing. I remember a time when all I wrote was short stories - not with any great frequency (and apparently not with correct use of apostrophes looking back).
Some time in the past tenyears I have shifted into novel writing mode. Again, not at a startling pace, but when I ( Read more... ) -
Learning from collaboration
The Event, a collaborative fiction project I’ve been working on with Debbie, Steph, Chris and Jenni, is moving into its final phase. We planned to write 5 parts each, moving through the stages of a major event in Wellington. The plan was to establish the characters in part one, have the event hit in part two, see the characters coping with ( Read more... ) -
NZ Spec Fic Blogging Week Opens New Horizons
Today is the last day of NZ Spec Fic Blogging Week - a week which has given me a lot of interesting reading material and pointed me in the direction of some great writing fun. Having now found and joined www.kiwiwriters.org I decided to jump into the September Zing Thing Challenge. The challenge is to write and edit a short story this weekend ( Read more... )