The Katalina Blog Challenge
As one of the contributors to the poetry project I have decided to also participate in the Katalina Blog Challenge, so over and above my usual posts, you will over the next while be seeing a series of...
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge #1: Who Do I Think I Am?
Description of challenge He was wearing a pair of green, hemp, kneelength shorts with a decidedly hippy feel to them. His growing collection of tie-dyed shirts went well with those but today he was...
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge #2: Inserting A Solution
Description of this challenge. He was afraid. Terrified down to the pit of his stomach. He hated to admit it, even to himself but he was petrified. He wasn't very good at dealing with being scared....
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge #3: Pretend you are me.
I've done blog-memes before, but the Katalina challenge is proving to be without a doubt the most challenging (and original) yet. I guess that's what you get for accepting a writing challenge from an...
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge #4: Why I Write
Description of this challenge Why do I write ? I would love to say I write because of my social conscience – to change the world through art, to make a positive contribution. And I do. I really do....
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge #5: Sophisticate Me
Description of this challenge. Today's challenge I find particularly difficult. This is at least in part because I have spent the majority of my adult life deliberately attempting to shirk...
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge 6: My Writing Self
Description of challenge Right so I am horribly late on this challenge. The irony is striking isn't it. My writing self has never done well with deadlines. I started a novel last year, wrote 15...
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge #7: Let’s Talk About Sex
Description of this challenge Well, well – I wasn't expecting this one, but I'm very happy to get it. Now consider before you go on that about half my stories are listed as erotic literature, in...
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge #8: Screw Yous and Other Taboos
Description of challenge In 1984 an organization known as the Parents Music Resource Center led the first organized attempt to censor music, particularly focusing their attacks on heavy metal and pop,...
View ArticleThe Katalina Blog Challenge #9: A Little Bit of Random
Description of this challenge - The novel from which this opening line came is "Contact" by Karl Sagan. For those who haven't read it, it is probably one of the most important and wonderful pieces of...
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