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Oh no! Captain Sol is barely alive and our main character is unconscious! What will happen next!?! Some of my friends predicted the following: Day 2 Dead. Day 3 Still dead. Day 4 Starting to bloat.

I’ve just returned victorious from the bizarro launch of the twitter tale – a pirate flashmob at Lyneham local shops in Canberra. I’ll upload some videos (much edited) tomorrow. We had quite a number of midget pirates, and one girl who insisted on coming as a dragon. A cutlass-wielding dragon. Our attempts at looking normalContinue reading “Flashmob: Report”

Amazingly*, the flashmob is on tomorrow! (*Not that amazing if you subscribe to the time-space continuum.) Who wants to help hand out free lollies (you’ll need to be someone I know and trust) and/or short-short stories? Please bring digital cameras for still photos to send to various media. I’d like someone to come with aContinue reading “Pirates Required”

Today I visited a primary school and took over two Year 5/6 classes for about an hour each. I met Aiden, Riley, Andrea, Nathan and many others. Teaching is a little bit like getting executed and a little bit like having God-like powers. The combination is confusing, to say the least. The kids were startlinglyContinue reading “I survived Year Five (and also Year Six)”

This is an email I sent to my sister very very late at night on the third Saturday in September, 2007 (cut for length/sense/name-changing, but otherwise untouched): I have one regret, and that’s that I didn’t immediately reply to your sms. My brain was too mooshy to form a sentence. I’m sorry.   So, toContinue reading “Why I owe Johnny Depp a favour”

I already have a group of people who receive free short stories between 50 and 1000 words on the first day of the month. If you’d like to be part of the list (called “Felicitations” after my adult-writing name, Felicity Bloomfield), then email fellissimo[at]hotmail.com with “Felicitations Please” in the subject line. NOTE: the list isContinue reading “Free Short Stories”

Can you believe the pirate flashmob is happening THIS Saturday? (FYI: At Lyneham shops outside Tillies and the second-hand bookshop, 2:00-2:30pm. Free family event.) My father-in-law was just panicking over lunch about what he was going to wear (not a conversation we have every day). I will be bringing a stack of home-made eyepatches, so ifContinue reading “Pirate How-To Guide”

The narrator of the twitter tale is Ulandin (chosen as narrator mainly because his name is the longest). He will be telling the story in first person (“I. . . “) Keep in mind that both Ulandin and “Louise Curtis” are technically fictional – Louise is MOSTLY me, but nicer. And a bit dumber (arguably).Continue reading “Interview with the main character”

This entry is all about child safety. The first thing to remember is that my “Louise Curtis” pen-name will never write above a PG rating (generally for piratical violence, or it’d be a G rating throughout). It should also be noted that I am a Christian and one of my characters is faintly based on JesusContinue reading “Parental Advisory”

I’ll be tweeting the very first post of the twittertale this Saturday 25 July. (It’s a bit weird calling it a free sample when the whole thing is free, but oh well.) Harper Collins is within a month of making a decision on one of my novels – the first I ever wrote that hadContinue reading “Free sample”

The “novel” will be told in real time – so if the characters are eating lunch, I’ll post that tweet at lunch time. Whenever I add a tweet to the novel, I’ll check the real-time weather in Jakarta (since my fantasy world is based on Indonesia). So you can check the novel weather, too (becauseContinue reading “Real Time Weather”

It is waaaaay easier than I expected. Go to: http://twitter.com/Louise_Curtis_ and join from there. You’ll need a name, an email address, and the ability to invent a password and type in a word verification. That’s it! It will ask you if you want to follow various celebrities, and my little icon should be on theContinue reading “Twitter for. . . well, for twits”

One of the concepts new writers struggle with is self-promotion. I don’t. (*gasp of shock from the crowd*) Here are some of the blogs I’ve snuck this blog address into (most belong to writers, and are well worth visiting): WARNING: Blogs are the property of their writers and might not be G-rated. http://steffmetal.com/ http://ripping-ozzie-reads.blogspot.com/ http://www.johnwiswell.blogspot.comContinue reading “Shameless Advertising”

Here’s a present to while away the long minutes (over 15,000 to go) until the TwitterTale begins. This story features the main character (though unfortunately Salty’s name changed to “Sol” after publication), and is effectively a prequel. It is NOT NOT NOT okay for children. Contains child and other abuse. Title: TAR http://drolleriepress.com/news-and-commentary/needles-bones-2/ I have written the first sevenContinue reading “Prequel”

Always wanted to be part of a flashmob? Or a pirate crew?

To help “launch” the twitter novel on Saturday 1 August, dress in your most piratical gear and relax calmly in/around Tilleys Devine Cafe (North Lyneham shops, Canberra, Australia) or browse in/near the excellent secondhand bookshop next door.

Arrive/don pirate gear at 2pm (park at the nearby schools if necessary), and vanish or change into an ordinary citizen at 2:30pm.

Bonus points for speaking as a pirate.

Yes, there will be candy and free flash (under 1000 words) stories. I and my minions will be randomly handing them out to any pirates we see/hear.

Extra candy for children. Because pirates care.

Hello and welcome (you scurvy landlubber with the face of a rotting dog). It’s almost two weeks until the tale begins, so here’s a few things to think about in preparation: ADD. Pirates. Tropical sunsets and a blind first mate. Do parrots tweet? If you want to join, write a comment and I’ll automatically getContinue reading “Yo ho ho!”