I put in my application form for Clarion South yesterday (www.clarionsouth.org).

It's a six week writers workshop, being held in Queensland, Australia. Six weeks or writing, and reading other peoples work. Intense.

Here's hoping I make the cut.

Writing for the web is an art.

I'm currently rewriting the content pro bono for www.ajustaustralia.com.au.

It's really interesting working with a totally different type of text - I'm used to working on magazine content, which just needs a slight twist to turn into web-friendly prose. A Just Australia is much harder work, but it's very fulfilling. I love playing with words, especially when the play is hard work. Gets my brain working.

On another note, I should be writing my fanzine, Vile Temptress!, for distributing at Swancon 2003 but I've been so busy with magazine deadlines, A Just Australia and flu that I've not finished. If anyone out there in readerland wants to donate a science fiction book review, please do!

An unhappy tester is a poor tester. I could probably go further and say that an unhappy employee is a poor employee.

*sigh*

How can you gently tell someone that you know they spend 5 out of their 7 hours at work surfing sites that have nothing to do with their job?

After getting into a discussion of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant on rec.arts.sf.written, I'm wondering just how uncommon it is for women to like the series. Just how obnoxious is the infamous rape scene?

I'm reading Anne Bishop's Shadows and Light at the moment.Boy, can that woman write readable prose. It may be trashy, it may be barely disguised B&D romance, but she knows how to keep me reading page after page.