Writing Prompt #8

The ‘gritty and real’ reboot of Aquaman was not as successful as DC Comics hoped.

Writing Prompt #7

In the early 1950s, milk van drivers when on strike. As demand for fresh milk rose, farmers attempted to circumvent traditional delivery methods in an effort to reach consumers. Some attempts proved less successful than others, despite the level of imagination employed.

Open Day

Come and visit us at RMIT’s Open Day today— Sunday August 12. We will be in Building 94 (Cardigan St) in the Professional Writing and Editing room, trying to convince young and innocent prospective students to come over to the dark side and be part of the team next year.

We’ll also be selling past editions of visible ink for $5 each or 3 for $10, and $20 fundraiser movie tickets for our upcoming ‘Wuthering Heights’ movie event at Nova Cinema on Tuesday August 28. 

Writing Prompt #6

I recently bought a bunny rabbit onesie from eBay. A few days later I got fired from my job and on the way home I thought that my life was over and that maybe the world would end and that would probably make my happy because then things couldn’t get any worse. I sat at home and watched the first season of Girls again, vaguely afraid that I would get caught downloading and cursing myself for wasting downloads on something I had already seen. As Hannah got fired and ruined her life again I started to cry and I couldn’t stop crying and life seemed even more hopeless. Then my bunny rabbit onesie arrived in the mail. I put it on and everything seemed better. Everything was better. I got a new job. They even let me wear my onesie. Today my boss was having a bad day so I bought him a bunny rabbit onesie from eBay. He’ll appreciate it. Everything is better when you’re wearing a bunny rabbit onesie.

Writing Prompt #5

I’m constantly running out of milk. Well, that’s not true. I never buy milk. I wake up each morning and go to have a bowl of muesli and then I realise that I haven’t bought milk in two weeks so all I have is two and a half week old milk that smells unappealing. So I stand in the kitchen and look at the muesli and end up picking out all of the dried fruit.

Later that day I’ll remember to buy more muesli because all I have left is oats and bran but I forget to buy the mik.

Submissions close at midnight, tonight!

Just a couple of hours to go! Submissions will close at midnight tonight. Thank you to everyone who has submitted; we have a very exciting couple of months ahead in editing and putting this book together. For you night owls who love a tight deadline, you can still submit here!

We’d also like to share some ‘visual abstractions of the reading experience’ by photographic artist Joel Robinson. This is how reading submissions makes us feel.

View his full photostream here

Writing Prompt #4

The last time I went fishing I sat in a boat on the ocean for hours. I tried to read that was frowned upon so I sat there fishing and when I got home I was sunburnt and I was informed that we had a nice day. I don’t even like fish.

By Jonathan Snyder. Source: wired.com