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Hello

2 weeks till I go on Holiday! 7 days in the Algarve with a Villa and pool! I am playing around with this new skin feature for journals (lazy CSS!).

Harmless

Self Harm is an uncomfortable subject for a lot of people. For those who haven’t experienced anything to do with it, it may be the want of ignorance, to not know about it. For those who have, perhaps it is a recollection of how you feel towards it, sometimes if can be an angry or sad feeling. Discomfort about something isn’t a crime, but Harmless is an organisation out there to support and give understanding where perhaps there isn’t any.

Harmless needs and wants you all. I need and want you all. We have on dA a wide range of talented and interesting writers and artists from all different backgrounds. I want to see some entries to this book project to reflect that. There is a lot of scope in fiction, nonfiction and visual and even if what you produce is a few words, they may be a few words that could mean so much to someone reading.

The news article for Harmless has full information. Please let me know if you intend to produce something for this and reassure me because we need more entries!


Flash! A-ah!

July is Flash Fiction month! This is a new month, which like NaPo and NaNo before it sets a challenge to write a different piece each day of July. This time we’re going to be looking at flash fiction, and so far over 60 people have signed up.

I would encourage anyone sat there feeling uninspired and looking for a challenge and a chance to develop your short fiction to sign up and get involved. Even if you don’t have 31 pieces at the end of the month and just have 6, you’ll have some material there with potential to redraft into some really well written fiction. It doesn’t matter who you are, whether you are new to this form of writing, looking for a challenge, perhaps naturally a poet or an experienced writer. This is open to everyone no matter what your ability.

For full details of this month, check out *Flash-Fic-Month or join the chat room #FlashFictionMonth.


Writing

I have finally put the Worst Haiku Ever to rest. It no longer exists in public eye. I am actually really happy about this. As a writer I would rather have people viewing my writing than one DD which lacked creativity and hard work. The solution was to remove it and hopefully one day I’ll have some writing to be proud of.

Part of the reason I am doing flash fiction month is because I need to focus on writing. Too much am I getting involved in things that just cause me to feel worse about myself. I’m fed up of being told what I should and shouldn’t be doing on dA- I came here to write and share and learn with writing and I want to go back to those routes. I don’t need people criticising me, critique my writing instead.

I’ll finish this journal off later