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Exercise 3: Prompt Rubric

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Choose from each column and write for 20 minutes. Either start a new piece or add to your WIP.

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Gippsland Writers Network is excited to share deta

Gippsland Writers Network is excited to share details of our summer writing competition!

ID: A poster with black text on a white background and a blue stripe down this side has an image of a couple of velvet couches in front of a cosy fire. The text reads as follows:

Gippsland Writers Network Summer Writing Competition

Send us your spec fic, horror, fantasy, literary, historical, or uncategorised words! Use your imagination, twist it up, make us stop and take a breath.

Entries must be received by Tuesday 31 January at 5.00pm.

1st Prize: $200 cash
2nd Prize: $50 book voucher
3rd Prize: $30 book voucher

The theme is ‘home’.

Flash fiction up to 500 words.

Entry fees:
GWN member $5
Standard $10

Find out more and enter at eventbrite

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What are you reading this week? #iamreading #jenn

What are you reading this week?

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Happy Sunday! What are you writing this weekend?

Happy Sunday! What are you writing this weekend?

Don’t forget, your 2022-23 membership is due now! See the link in bio to pay for this next year—it’s only $10–and membership benefits include subsidised tickets to local workshops, free access to many online events, meet-ups with writers from across the region and much more!

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What are your writing goals for 2022? And how can

What are your writing goals for 2022? And how can we support them?

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Where would you rather be reading? I’ll take tha

Where would you rather be reading? I’ll take that sunny spot in the corner, please!

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ID: an old-style lounge room in an apartment is filled with plants, a vintage rug and a pale corner sofa. The ceiling has plaster detailing and there is wood fretwork in front of the windows. Sunlight from the two large windows behind the couch is creating a sunny spot right in the corner.

This magnificent red gum is in my front yard. I ca

This magnificent red gum is in my front yard. I call it my magic tree. I don’t know how long it has been here, or how old it is—I do know I don’t even come close to wrapping my arms around its trunk. I wonder what stories it could tell me of its lifetime? What it has seen? What it has survived?

Over the weekend, it waved and shook in the wild winds but it didn’t drop any branches and it stayed standing.

Writing prompt: do you have a favourite tree in your yard or park? What does the tree mean to you? What stories does it whisper to you?

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Weekend writing desk vibes 😍 What does your de

Weekend writing desk vibes 😍

What does your desk look like?

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Punctuation, when words are stripped from a story.

Punctuation, when words are stripped from a story. Check out the original post @sydwritersfest for the links to articles and images!

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Are you a word nerd? I love discovering words I’

Are you a word nerd? I love discovering words I’ll (probably) never use, and their meanings. Sometimes I love them for the way they sound, sometimes for the way they roll around in my mouth. What are some of your favourite words?

ID: The word “werifesteria” is printed in lower case, centred at the top of the square on a background image of a group of pine trees which fade into the mist and shadows. Beneath the word, it says “[verb]•to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery”.

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Our Treasurer, Tash, is a Gippsland-based writer w

Our Treasurer, Tash, is a Gippsland-based writer who lives in the Latrobe Valley area with her partner, two cats, five chickens and seven alpacas. But to be clear, only her partner and the cats live in the house with her. She writes personal essays, memoir, and poetry—and many, many lists. When she’s not writing, Tash is busy powering Gippsland in her role as an operator at the Yallourn Power Station, while she herself is powered by coffee.

In 2020, she won the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition for her non-fiction essay, Sexy Nails, which was published in the October-November edition of The Victorian Writer magazine. And, she was recently longlisted for the Richell Prize 2021 for her memoir-in-progress about marriage, mental health, and the breakdown of both.

Tash begins far too many sentences with conjunctions, likes to procrastinate by taking writing workshops instead of actually writing, and owns more notebooks than one person should ever be permitted. You can find her on Instagram @tashagafonoff and, very occasionally her blog, www.snippetsandglimpses.com

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What are you doing on this wild and woolly weekend

What are you doing on this wild and woolly weekend in Gippsland? We’re dreaming of a home library like this!

ID: A large, long room with high wooden ceilings, arched windows, cozy couches and plants draw your attention to the huge bookshelf at the end of the room.

📷 by Nicolò Canu

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When being a Disney princess would almost be worth

When being a Disney princess would almost be worth it!

ID: an image of Belle from the Disney film Beauty and the Beast, with her head buried in a book and the quaint village behind her. Text on the image says “Lock me in a castle and call me Belle because all I want is a massive in-home library and dishes that wash themselves.”

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Are you writing this weekend? Or has lockdown got you down? With Latrobe City under stay at home orders for seven days, motivation can feel hard to come by! But the hardest part is always the first step. How are our other LGAs going?

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