Also, for future reference: "We're all done, just need you to approve the final edit" actually means "We're going to send you another version after this where we've decided to re-arrange half of it."

MY ART. YOU ARE KILLING MY ART. ::SWOON::

Things that suck about a creative writing course:

Spending two hours until four AM trying to get a story working only to give the fuck up, dig out This Space For Rent and spending twenty minutes gussying it up before calling it a night.

But then I just got engaged, so I have other things on my mind.

Edit: And it wasn't even due this week!

For anyone still paying attention (and didn't catch it when I dumped it in Flakeout eons ago) ZineWest finally got it together while I wasn't looking and put Theory of Gravity up. I sent a bunch of stuff out when I was still feeling cocky in the aftermath, but given how glacial publishing is I've yet to hear back one way or the other.

I got accepted ( Read more... )

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Luke Rule was awarded third Prize ($25 Book voucher from NWG Inc) for his story "The Theory of Gravity" - Luke got plenty of laughs when he read his piece, however one member of the audience on congratulating Luke added - "Now you've given me one more thing to worry about!"

So yeah, I'm actually published now, even if ( Read more... )

I slept through it. You may think 'Of course you did, you antipodean git' but I mean I slept through until 4pm my time and had to look up the result before I went to work ( Read more... )

Goddammit not only did I have to deal with the Pope marching a legion of trust-fund Jesus babies through my city for the last few weeks, they had to go and leave me with their alien Pilgrim Flu. I am dying by drowning in myself.

On the other hand, I got to watch one drop his change on the train, twist his face in rage and scream "GOSH DANG IT."

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19337Read more... )

In my increasingly mad belief that buying fancy writing paraphenalia will somehow make me write more often I managed to get myself a pretty damn fine fountain pen (a Lamy logo, if you care about those things, all sleek and steel and begging to be jabbed into someone's jugular vein). So while I'm on this handwriting kick (and before the pen gets ( Read more... )

Part B, 1 -
‘The disgusting is marvellously promiscuous and ubiquitous. It is what is strange and estranged but threatens to make contact; it is also the utterly familiar guest who threatens to remain or to return again soon.’ (Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust, p. 89)

Write a piece that you think will inspire the affect of disgust in your reader. ( Read more... )

My time at UWS is becoming my own private hell

Monday, 9am. A shuttle bus on its way from the station. BUS DRIVER is in the middle of a rant to ACADEMIC, and continues throughout the journey. LUKE stands in the aisle.

BUS DRIVER

...the simple act of walking, it triggers activity. These kids that sit down all the time, their brains aren't getting the ( Read more... )