Short Story Anthology

OK.
Some of you might know a lovely Australian called Sharon. She's recently had a short story published in the AusLit Reviews Basics of Life anthology, but you might know her better through the writing site inkpop.
Since I found out about AusLit Review I've been trolling their website and I found this.

A science-based Australian anthology call for submissions.
I'm going to enter. I've got till New Years Eve to submit my 4-10k short story and I'm pushing everything else aside to work on it.

I've had a lot of ideas for this and for some reason they've all revolved around scents.

Original Idea: perfuming assassin. Perfuming = chemistry. 

Why I'm not using it? Spray bottles weren't invented until late 20th century and in 1993 the production and selling of poisons in Australia as well as 165 other countries were axed. I'm not enough of a history buff to set a story in a specific year between the two events.
I could have always set it way back in time, but that would mean no spray bottles and I'd have to use essential oils and that kind of thing. Rubbing perfume into gloves and other stuff. Also not enough of a history buff for this. Idea terminated. 


I went along a long line of variations from this idea and eventually got to this:


In the near future scientists have developed drugs that can--

Shoot, I've got to go. I'll finish this post later.

Ciao ciao. 

Pretty Blogs

There's so many out there.

*sigh*

And mine just looks tacky.

My mission for this week (as well as actually doing my homework and cleaning my room and writing a debating speech and practicing clarinet and checking up on violin lessons and writing my resume and searching for awards I stupidly didn't organise and going to Mary's house to help her write her speech and bake muffins and see Harry Potter and...I'll stop now) is to GET A RELATIVELY DECENT LOOKING BLOG.

It's just too plain for me to bear.
The site won't look original, but I'm past caring.

If there's any sites you invisibles would like to suggest for blog designs or anything, comment, please!

The Escapism Project

JOY. HAPPINESS. BLISS. 

I'm now part of The Escapism Project!

What is that?

Well! It's a blog about writing and reading and books in general. I'm doing this with a LOT of friends/friends of friends, and when I say "a lot", I mean it. There's going to be a maximum of 100 bloggers. Why? So you, the readers (subliminal messaging...) will be able to read a number of varying personalities, so there's a good change you'll find someone you can relate to!

There'll be regular bloggers who are assigned days, and then there are odd-jobs like me, who are non conformists and post whenever we damn feel like it XD Within reason, of course. We don't want to clog the site. So if you are one of my ghosts feel free to comment if you have any suggestions to what I should post about! 

A big shout out to Mariella H who organised this whole site, and let everyone know about it. 

So, go read it! Like it on Facebook! Advertise!

And watch out for my name!

Facebook Page

Website

Covers for Ariwriter

Here you go :)

Unfamiliar

Not My Life

Roses by the Lake

Trapped Innocence

Butterfly

Break-down.

Today, I had one.

It was not pretty.

I cried for the first time at school, the first time in front of my friends, and the first time in front of a teacher (that wasn't my mum--Yr 7 teacher :/ Imagine having your mum teach you safe contraceptive and how to put on a condom. That's. Awkward).

Most embarrassing thing of my life...so far.

And what over? Stress. A whole build-up of stress that had curled itself into a tight little ball--a bit like a bomb.

School-work, my upcoming holiday and all the stress of reorganizing due dates, renovation, my English teachers absence and how I'd only be at school on Tuesday next week all contributed to my break down.

Next time, I don't want to collapse into tears. I don't want my little stress bomb to even THINK of blowing up.

So, if anyone actually reads this, do you have any ways that you help relieve stress?

Ten Rules for Writing Fiction.

I did not write this. Actually, I got it off of guardian.co.uk. 

READ IT. It was so helpful to me and it's invaluable information--told by real authors, including the fabulous Margaret Atwood.

The article comes in two parts:
Part One
Part Two



Some of my favourites:

8 Avoid detailed descriptions of characters, which Steinbeck covered. In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants", what do the "Ameri­can and the girl with him" look like? "She had taken off her hat and put it on the table." That's the only reference to a physical description in the story. - Elmore Leonard.

1 Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. - Margaret Atwood.

3 Only bad writers think that their work is really good. - Anne Enright

4 Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. - Anne Enright

1 Write only when you have something to say. - David Hare

And my ultimate favourite:  

My main rule is to say no to things like this, which tempt me away from my proper work - Philip Pullman

Covers

Sleepless Beauty and Prince Charmless by Whyte.Rhose

Shadow Wolves by Christine Ko

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