Tuesday's Ten Minute Tale - the setup!

It's the usual... the first three people to post with a word, phrase, topic, theme, name, or whatever, dictate the direction of the story. I'll endeavour to incorporate all three suggestions, and write it within ten minutes of receiving the third post, work allowing. Then I'll post the result.

Tuesday's Ten Minute Tale - the result!

Okay here 'tis. Thanks to angriest for "ambulance", gillpolack for "dastardly", and benpeek for, well, "shit". You're all class. ;)

( Do As You're Told! (c) Martin Livings 11-3-2008 NOTE - CONTAINS SOME COARSE LANGUAGE )

Tin Duck finalists announced!

The Tin Duck award finalists have been announced, huzzah! The good news is, "There Was Darkness" was nominated. The bad news is, bloody hell, so was absolutely everything else written by a West Aussie last year. :)

With no less than nineteen, count 'em, nineteen stories nominated in the "Best WA Professional Short Work" category, it's literally anyone's award this year, though a few nominees have a slight advantage (Lee "battersblog" Battersby, AKA The Behemoth, has an astounding three nominations, while Lainey Cairo, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Sue Isle and AM Muffaz each garnered an impressive two!). I feel very sorry for the poor presenters this year, who'll need copious glasses of water to get through the lists before announcing the winners. I'm glad I'll just be sitting in the audience and trying to roll a critical hit on my d20 to win an award. :)

( So, congrats to those on my f-list... )

Blooody hell, that took a lot longer than I intended. Anyway, my apologies to anyone I missed, and biggest crossed fingers ever to each and every one of ya's!

Also, big congrats to mynxii for organising this, never an easy thing to do. Nice work, Ju!

Roll on Sunday the 23rd!

"Just a tool" goes friends-only...

For reasons I can't go into, "Just a Tool" is becoming a friends-only comic strip. The web site has been taken down, and all posts will be converted to friends-only posts, as will all future posts.

The moral of the story is - if you're reading this and you're not on my friends list, you'll need to add me as a friend, and I'll add you back.

Apologies for the inconvenience.