Joanne Anderton

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GodDAMN it! Doing my usual exercises yesterday aggravated the back, for reasons I do not understand. There was no pop or crunch or twinge, just slow build up of pain and oh boy yay we’re back there again are we? I’m SO angry at myself for letting this happen! Revision was finished, new story begun …

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Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol 3!

Via HorrorScope: After a delay, Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume 3 (ADFH3) goes on sale in bookstores around the country this week. This anthology is the third installment in the annual dark fiction anthology edited by Angela Challis and published by Brimstone Press. The table of contents is: “Subtle Invasion” by David Conyers (Australian …

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More gardening distractions…

You don’t want to hear me complain about these words. I don’t want to hear me complain about these words. Instead, more gardening. A miniature forest in my miniature greenhouse. Broccoli, tomatoes, onions. Poor experiments. My first test subjects. See, even vegetable growing can be creepy. And blurry.

Gardening, not revision

Revision is starting. And because the details of revision (‘wtf does that mean?’ ‘when did I forget how to use punctuation?’) are less interesting to other people than they are to me, I’m going to talk about gardening stuff instead. Poking around at the plants this arvo I met an extraordinary creature. Check him out! …

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Fiiinally

First draft. Done. You know how some stories are harder to write than others? Yeah, this was one of those. The first draft has finally come in at 11,000 odd words but boy, oh, boy does it need some work. This little bugger of a tale did not want to participate. The reasons for this …

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