The word ‘hunk’ is greatly displeasing to me. It’s a vile word which conjures up all sorts of unimaginable horrors, so I’m at a loss as to why people use it to describe the chiselled good looks of a Captain America type. For the past eleven years, I have worked in a medical laboratory. You…
For a while there, I thought I’d contracted the bubonic plague. I know I don’t really have the plague and my symptoms were vastly different, but I felt like death and have a tendency for the melodramatic sometimes. I couldn’t even go near poor Little Squiggle for fear of causing her to mutate into a…
I’m sure we’ve all seen someone with a tattoo wandering around at some point. Some people are plastered in them, some have only a few and sometimes the most surprising people will admit to having ink. I’m of the opinion that tattoos are a great storytelling method and a gateway into a person’s inner being.…
My as of yet unnamed protagonist has finally been given a name! Rejoice! I wanted a name that hinted at her story and purpose in life, which she has to discover for herself, but I also wanted one that wasn’t an overused genre cliche. Her name is…. Darcy! Personally, I hate the name Darcy. I…
I learned quite a few things over the past few weeks doing the Creative Writing Course through the Sydney Writer’s Centre. I would have possibly preferred doing the one week intensive course face to face so I could have workshopped a little bit more with other aspiring writers. I’m not sure what happened to them…
This is the last week of the course in creative writing that I’m taking through the Sydney Writer’s Centre. I just submitted my last assignment, which I really don’t think is anywhere near as good as it could and should be. But I’m just too tired to work on it. Some of the other students…
I did promise that I would write up my descriptive exercise and why I chose to write about that particular place in my last post. Forgive me though, I have just been away for the last week in Brisbane. We were asked to write about a place we had been and try and describe the…
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