Summary: ... since I began writing, I've heard many different people exclaim "What shall I do? The horrid Overlord Writer's Block doth wound me greviously!"
Down the Rabbit Hole, Alice
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Trying to get things moving here again and what better way to do that than a prompt? If anyone has a particularly marvellous, or vaguely good, idea for a prompt, please comment and let me know.
Or, indeed, register your interest in doing prompts here. :)
Prizes:
- Entry is for Australian residents
- Short stories should be original, previously unpublished work
- Stories should not exceed 3,000 words
- Adult 1st Prize $1500
- Teenage 1st Prize $350 13-18 years
- Junior 1st Prize $250 9-12 years
- Local Award $500 For residents in Knox, Maroondah and Yarra Ranges
*~* Writers must be living in Australia
*~* Writers may enter more than one category and/or scripts in more than one form
*~* There is no restriction on style or genre, but the piece must run a minimum of 40 minutes.
*~* Identity of the writer(s) should be removed from the script
*~* The work should not have been professionally produced.
Each category of Prize receives the following:
*~* $5 000 cash
*~* Extensive script development workshops with leading international practitioners
*~* A presentation
*~* Production of scripts
Earth is not a museum. It is a glasshouse in a universe that likes to throw stones. A house of cards that plays it own hand. Little more than a rock, dragged unwilling through space with its waters bulging out the sides and its face to the sun.
That is what I would like to believe. It gives me comfort on cloud choked nights. Yet it is not the complete truth. Earth is a crucible with its slippery edges curved inwards. We settle in its centre, writhing against the silence.

The 77th Annual Writer's Digest competition is on!
Win a trip to New York City !
GRAND PRIZE: $3,000 cash and a trip to New York City to meet with editors or agents. Writer's Digest will fly you and a guest to The Big Apple, where you'll spend three days and two nights in the publishing capital of the world. While you're there, a Writer's Digest editor will escort you to meet and share your work with four editors or agents! Plus, you'll receive a free Diamond Publishing Package from Outskirts Press.
Entry Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2008.
interested? CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE