Ashamel: Writing

Live Journal Index

Here an index of posts in our Live Journal about various matters to do with our writing (other than general updates and complaints about our current projects, which are scattered throughout).

• 2003-08-02: Magic Casements
• 2003-08-05: Clarion South
• 2003-08-31: Clarion
• 2003-09-14: Magic Casements report
• 2003-09-25: Kijin Tea, by Kyla Ward
• 2003-12-27: Read Throughs
• 2004-02-05: Angel, Relish, the Australian scene and music
• 2004-02-05: Best horror movie, short stories, voting
• 2004-02-05: Horror, words and the Australian scene
• 2004-02-06: International Horror Guild nominations
• 2004-03-06: Magic Casements #2
• 2004-03-09: Too many options
• 2004-03-14: 'Kijin Tea'
• 2004-03-15: Angel and Buffy covers
• 2004-03-19: Demon praise
• 2004-04-16: Wild Thing
• 2004-08-05: Writing indirectly
• 2004-08-10: 1000 words
• 2004-08-18: The Truth about Publishing, by Ian Irvine
• 2004-08-29: Dictionary of Troublesome Words, by Bill Bryson
• 2004-11-02: Writer raided for doing research
• 2004-11-10: Project Greenlight Australia
• 2004-11-27: Dust, bookcases and giant monsters
• 2004-11-28: Reference material
• 2005-01-17: A Writing Course, a SF party and giant monsters
• 2005-01-19: Research for Writing
• 2005-01-24: The Writing Course, part 2
• 2005-01-28: Raw Comedy
• 2005-01-30: Short and Sweet, short play competition
• 2005-03-30: Fallen Woman and other Easter goodies
• 2005-04-05: Novel Preperation
• 2005-04-09: Daikaiju, The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser)
• 2005-04-25: Sending out stories
• 2005-04-27: Australian spec fiction: reviews and sales
• 2005-04-27: Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide and submitting stories
• 2005-05-03: Plotting and characters
• 2005-05-15: Sending stories and playing Angel
• 2005-05-16: Daikaiju! success and review
• 2005-05-19: Map of Sunnydale
• 2005-05-21: Back issues of 'zines
• 2005-06-02: Investigator's Casebook illustrations
• 2005-06-02: panels at Continuum
• 2005-06-24: FanFic
• 2005-06-30: Lost Things, Black Kiss, reviews
• 2005-07-24: Continuum, and the lack of writing
• 2005-07-29: What genre of novel?
• 2005-09-01: Horror submissions
• 2005-09-01: Mysterious foreshadowing
• 2005-09-21: Of TVs and writing
• 2005-09-28: Writing woes and rudeness
• 2005-10-11: Editing, Died with a Felafel (soundtrack)
• 2005-10-11: Writing
• 2005-10-12: Plotting, The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
• 2005-10-28: Naming Cthulhu
• 2005-11-04: Dungeon Twister, Night Watch, Anansi Boys, and the Website
• 2005-11-18: A vampire novel (or not), Dead Like Me
• 2005-11-18: Legal action by writers, Reality TV, I, Robot
• 2005-11-19: NSW Writers Center forum on Terror Laws
• 2005-11-30: Australian Specfic Reviews? As If.
• 2005-12-05: The Grail in Ticonderoga Online, Canberra
• 2005-12-23: The Grail, in Ticonderoga Online #6
• 2006-01-19: Prismatic acceptance
• 2006-01-22: New deadlines, Underworld Evolution, DVDs, books and games
• 2006-01-30: Ditmar Awards, 2006
• 2006-02-06: 2005 list of Australian short fiction
• 2006-02-06: The Grail reviewed, Bat's Boudoir by Kyla, GROG bio and Witch King
• 2006-02-07: Clarion South 2007?
• 2006-02-14: Clarion South, Boojum!
• 2006-02-15: The Grail reviewed, Clarion (back on?), Lord of War, The Dead Zone
• 2006-02-16: Sengoku and Research
• 2006-02-17: JDeveloper nightmares
• 2006-02-18: The Prisoner, research material and dinner party
• 2006-02-19: Starting writing again
• 2006-02-21: Editing Prismatic
• 2006-02-21: Limn
• 2006-02-22: Titles explained
• 2006-02-23: Ambition
• 2006-02-23: Supernature in the real world, Prismatic, Dead Zone, Song of Kali
• 2006-02-25: Set Piece, titles
• 2006-02-28: Ditmar categories
• 2006-03-02: limn again
• 2006-03-04: Magic Casements, Anagram maps
• 2006-03-08: Twilight, Commander-in-Chief, books, writing (or not)
• 2006-03-14: Writing non-fiction (or not)
• 2006-03-16: The Grail, a review
• 2006-03-22: Prismatic meme, Crimson Coconut
• 2006-03-25: Magic Casements 2006
• 2006-03-27: More words, and playing Enchanter
• 2006-03-29: Prismatic proofing
• 2006-03-30: Proofing
• 2006-04-05: Prismatic lyrics
• 2006-04-12: Prismatic back on
• 2006-04-13: How to be Miserable as an artist, plus off to Conjure
• 2006-04-18: Writing historical fiction
• 2006-04-19: Conjure 06 photo gallery
• 2006-04-21: Prismatic kanji, Collateral (Michael Mann)
• 2006-04-29: Prismatic appearances
• 2006-04-29: Prismatic description
• 2006-05-04: Alphabet Meme
• 2006-05-05: Editing
• 2006-05-07: Medical problems, and Selling books
• 2006-05-13: Prismatic description
• 2006-05-18: Creating Prismatic
• 2006-05-19: Prismatic copies arrive
• 2006-05-20: Prismatic website
• 2006-05-22: Self-nomination, The Descent (Neil Marshall)
• 2006-05-27: Ten years
• 2006-06-03: Conflux panels
• 2006-06-05: Edwina Grey interview
• 2006-06-09: Prismatic sightings and article
• 2006-06-12: The Prismatic Launch
• 2006-06-14: An Advance, review copies and Burnt Toast
• 2006-06-14: the Conflux report
• 2006-06-16: Launch photos
• 2006-06-20: Prismatic review
• 2006-06-28: More Lothian launch photos
• 2006-07-10: Lucy Sussex reviews Prismatic
• 2006-07-15: All Tomorrow's Zombies preview
• 2006-07-17: Advance warning of Prismatic on the radio
• 2006-07-20: Recording the interview
• 2006-07-26: Freelance salaries
• 2006-08-25: Review of Prismatic on ASif!
• 2006-09-01: Blue Moon Festival
• 2006-09-03: Prismatic in Big W
• 2006-09-11: All Tomorrow's Zombies title
• 2006-09-14: Eden update, Xena and other things
• 2006-09-19: Writing History program
• 2006-09-21: Cutting rejection
• 2006-09-25: Prismatic royalty
• 2006-09-29: Novel options
• 2006-09-30: Prismatic overseas
• 2006-11-12: police stations, detail, dead books and Paranoid: A Chant
• 2006-11-21: The Grail reviewed
• 2006-12-04: Spruiking Prismatic, and The Pilo Family Circus
• 2006-12-05: Slack writers
• 2006-12-21: 2006 Aurealis Shortlist
• 2006-12-24: 3 Prismatic reviews
• 2006-12-28: Gratuitous vomit
• 2007-01-07: Prismatic review
• 2007-01-17: Singapore, and 2006 bestsellers
• 2007-01-28: Aurealis results
• 2007-01-28: Aurealis win
• 2007-02-03: Bill and Michelle's wedding, and Aurealis stuff
• 2007-02-26: 2006 Ditmar nominations
• 2007-03-20: ashamel: AHWA Mentor program announced
• 2007-03-21: Prismatic review
• 2007-04-02: Ditmar Nominations 2007
• 2007-04-10: Talie Helene's Prismatic review
• 2007-05-31: New Kelly nomination for Prismatic
• 2007-06-03: AHWA bookshop
• 2007-06-12: Australian Gargoyles by Kyla Ward
• 2007-06-16: Call my Agent journal
• 2007-06-17: Jump Start Writing Course
• 2007-06-21: The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod, LibraryThing
• 2007-06-26: JumpStart day 1
• 2007-06-27: JumpStart day 2, Phantasm again
• 2007-06-30: JumpStart conference
• 2007-07-13: Bellis Coldwine, and problems with writing
• 2007-08-02: Mythos Magic, The List, The Canberra Heresy, Primsatic plates
• 2007-08-04: Distractions
• 2007-08-14: David Carroll Interview, 2007 snapshot
• 2007-08-17: Kyla Ward's snapshot interview
• 2007-09-12: All Tomorrow's Zombies
• 2007-09-16: Primer (Shane Carruth), The Science of Stephen King, Langoliers, ATZ
• 2007-09-20: AutoSummaries
• 2007-09-28: All Tomorrow's Zombies review
• 2007-10-15: My study, a Creative Space
• 2007-10-16: Rose Tea review
• 2007-10-29: Kyla's desk
• 2007-12-20: Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2007
• 2007-12-21: Doctor Who eps and story
• 2008-01-09: Doctor Who RPG netbook, with story
• 2008-07-12: 2008 ENnie Awards