Archive for the Creative Writing Category

Dreams

I’ve been thinking a lot about dreams at the moment.
Things like Astral travel, different plains of reality, The subconsciouses mind, creativity. Its all fascinating. I’m not going to become a Buddhist, but the best lies contain an element of truth. And i think Buddhism is a very convincing lie for some. Lucid dreaming is really [...]

Some Poems.

I whipped up some poems for my tea party (see previous post). They were fast little things, but quiet cute. I have this whole theory about what makes a good poem. Its all about drawing them out of your subconscious which is where true creativity comes from. But I’ll blag about all that later (its [...]

Silly-beautiful-dreams

I hate university. I hate hate hate it.
I hate it for TWO reasons.
1) I am studying creative writing. But can anyone ever STUDY creative writing? can creative writing be placed into a linear scale from best to worst? Creative writing is so subjective and i disagree with alot of things being taught. What is the [...]

Highly commended

I submitted the first 5 chapters of Jac and the Wild Children to the Queensland Arts Council Regional New Writers Scholarship 2007. The winner for this year is Adair Jones of Clear Mountain. I did a quick Google search or her and now i dont feel so bad about loosing to her.
At the Queensland Writers [...]