S.C Newland - Writer

AI generated pic.  Oh, well. 'Super Rabbit' my entry for the Liskeard Library Short Story Competition did not get placed. Here's the 'rejection': Many thanks for your participation in the Liskeard Library Short Story Competition. With so many fantastic entries, it was no small task for our Inaugural Writer in Residence, Peter McAllister, to whittle things down to just ten short listers, then choose one overall winner from that shortlist. Peter McAllister (Competition Judge) said, "The standard of entries was incredibly high and I’d like to congratulate all those who entered on producing such fantastic work. From love and loss in Eighteenth century Cornwall to zombie apocalypses in eastern Asia, it was great fun to read and judge. All shortlisters and our overall winner should be particularly proud and I wish them all the best in their future writing." Beaten by a zombie LOL

  I picked up The Moonstone, written by Wilkie Collins, from St Edward the Martyr church in Corfe Castle. It is heralded as the original detective novel. Full of intrigue and peculiar characters. I am only 70 pages in, but enjoying the plot and humour coming across.

  Playing around with Ai using Nightcafe and generated these images for The B Word. Look quite good, but a bit unsettling as you know an artist somewhere has created original versions, so I'm led to believe. Or is Ai really Picasso in disguise?

Have been playing around with Micro Fiction - in this instance the limit is 100 words including the title. So it is basically a story in a single long paragraph. Came up with an idea - but boy, after the initial story was trundled out I have spent hours trying to make it fit the word count. Exchanging descriptive usage for single adjectives. Fun and games. Think I have reached a compromise.