These are my responses to the writing exercises from our tenth Writing Apocalypse lecture.
TRIGGER WARNING: Child death; car accident.
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Another Writing Exercise Response (May 2021)
When I was a kid there were parks and forests. Suburbs with whole streets lined with trees.
Random Snippet May 2021
After all these years, I still miss her.
Writing Exercise Responses (April 2021)
I’m moving house tonight and won’t have internet access for a while, so I’m posting this week’s Fiction Friday a day early.
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You might think that day would be forgotten, lost in the cacophony of days since.
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He is alive, though death would be better, I think.
More Writing Exercise Responses (March 2021)
My new Kindle arrived the other day.
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Australia emerged from the pandemic relatively unscathed, with less than five hundred deaths.
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It was like books with special features and we were stoked.
Writing Exercise Responses (March 2021)
Lust turned to confusion, then terror, as loud tremors announced the first impact.
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He did not wish for more time, though the opportunity to cause more mayhem would be welcome.
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Heimdall watched, eyes hard, as Loki lay, wounded and broken, on the frozen ground.
Philip Gourevitch Interview (Conversations With History)
Harry Kreisler interviews Philip Gourevitch, author of ‘We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families’, on Writing, Reporting, and the Rwandan Genocide.
Run Time: 59:29
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Tick The room was quiet, oppressive. The sound of her own breathing filled her ears.
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Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 