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I
write a lot, am currently writing a novel, and post various stories
online as I (almost ) complete them, often getting interesting feedback
from passing readers. These stories are a changing mix,
usually
only about five visible at any one time.
Between
spending huge amounts of time on novel writing I stop intermittently
and write something short for a break. My theme lately has
been
'moral ambiguity'. People often die in these stories, and they also
often have slightly strange sex lives (whatever that might be). Some of
these stories offend my readers - feel free to read them
HERE.
Getting
published by a commercial publisher seems an unattainable goal and I
found the pressure to aim at publication simply got in the way of
writing. So it seemed easier to join the great band of writers who
never really aspire to publication, or in fact didn't achieve it.
This group has some quite illustrious writers in it - for
example
Emily Dickenson and John Kennedy Toole, although I do not compare
myself to either..
And for anyone who might be interested in
assessing writing schools or courses I conducted a
survey of
Writing courses in Australian Universities last year (2010), publishing
an article about
the results in the QWC's newsletter. The raw data is attached
as
a couple of web pages with a link below. Writers Blog also
has assessments of courses that I or other contributors have posted, so
anyone interested might like to read some of those HERE
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