Caitlin Mahony

300 words of darlings to kill, 6 hours until submission due. I forgot how challenging short stories can be, but it seems doable.

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This is an 86 word story I wrote (checks watch) 11 and a half years ago. Enjoy!

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It's literary fiction, set in Australia with a focus on female characters.

This is my first novel, so I'm not really in a position to give tips - working it out as I go!

I don't score any bonus points, but The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein is an excellent Australian audiobook biography about a trans woman.

Thanks! Not open to beta readers. Cheers.

First draft DONE!!! Wooohoooo!!! 🥂

Looking forward to a few weeks of forgetting about my novel before jumping back into working on the second draft.

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we take for granted
things like auto-save -
so many butts covered

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Furious Fiction is free to enter (but there is also no prize). It's run monthly by the Australian Writers Centre and open to worldwide entrants. www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fict...

I wish I had an answer! I guess it depends what you think about the work when you read it now.

Andy Jackson - Human Looking
Andy is a incredible Australian poet who writes about disability, and a lovely person too!

It's bizarre going back to the start of the first draft of the novel and seeing a caricature of the character you have come to know and love (through writing the whole story) behaving in all the wrong ways.

That's what second drafts are for!

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Cognitive #health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

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That's brave. I'm making my husband wait until I have the first draft done!

Good luck 🍀

Hi. It's still a WIP!

Mine is literary fiction. What genre is yours?

Great work! I'm in regional Victoria, where are you??

A fictional story set in an Australian caravan park 😄

I did it! A 10,000 word writing week. Now I'm within spitting distance of the end of my first draft. Feels good.

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A message to self doubt:
Maybe what I'm writing is a load of crap that will never see the light of day, but I'm going to finish it, no matter what you say.

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🎶Everyday I'm writin'🎶

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I like Google Docs. Using the Headings fonts you get an organised link/list along the side of the doc that is tiered according to which heading you chose. And you can also add a clickable contents section to the top of the doc.

A glass of wine?

Very relatable. My boss (me) can be a bit full on at times, but she also lets me watch YouTube videos in between writing sprints, so that's nice.

🙄🤣

Wow, so many words. I've only fired a couple of my Chekov's guns so far, looking forward to firing the rest in the coming weeks, but I'm glad yours all went off!

Congratulations, that's huge! 🎉

Beautifully written and explained. One symptom of the flawed system is the concept of "anything is possible" which I find to be frustratingly inaccurate. Some things are possible, some are not, and that's ok.

I did it! My first 2,000 word day of writing. May there be more to come.

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