Australian Writers' Forum

Three ... two ... one ...

*presses plunger*

Not a mountain any more! Thank you, Alfred Nobel.

The same thing can happen to your goal. Just please don't blow up your own writing.

Yes, it's a good rule - which in my earlier fiction, alas, I didn't know about - or forgot - or wanted to brag ...

Although probably it was all three.

Meg is write! Er, right! :D Nah, no-one ever becomes an overnight success. I understand that now. I didn't understand that when I started writing, almost 25 years ago. Back then I was a star-struck stupid boy fresh out of high school. I thought I'd write the next big novel and sell a million copies....

Well, please don't get harsh. Here, enjoy these instead ... https://www.thesprucepets.com/thmb/Ft1UhyKtAjkF4vdU60EZzeAlXVQ=/450x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/kitten-1285341_1920-5b59c7e046e0fb0024e5995d.jpg https://www.choratravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/van_ked%C4%B1s%...

Hmm, the "Billy Ninefingers" book that this lady wrote reminds me of LOTR for some reason. :| Frodo (he who carried the Ring to Mount Doom) is famous for having only nine fingers - Gollum chomped one off. And Billy isn't far from Bilbo, Frodo's adoptive father. Coincidence? I don't know ...

Ah, yes. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ...

From Canberra? Why, is the historical veneer so thin as that?

I was trying to achieve the feel that this could have been on the TV news only yesterday, yet the stories themselves are from the mythical age of Greece. Did I succeed? *crosses fingers*

"Well thank you for the weather, Agathon! Now it's over to Dasces for sport." "Thank you! Good evening, everyone. Let's first take a look at the quoits - that's right, a new game invented by Perseus of Mycenae, which I am told is a bit like trying to throwing horseshoes over or near a...

I hope you liked my take on the Minotaur story, too ... Poor old Torope! It's not even his fault, the whole thing started before he was even born.

No ... I haven't read it yet, but I'm reading it now. The idea kind of reminds me of "Shrek" - but in that a traditional story gets turned upside down. Reading, reading, reading ... done. I like it very much. :) Yes, poor ol' Rumple ... it's not fair on him. He works so hard and doesn't ge...