Triond

I have come across just recently the Triond website, which claims to give you some money for writing things. The actual claim is "Triond: Just Like Blogging, Only Awesome"...

Anyway, I wrote something that is now on the Sportales website. It was a little preview of the Trans Tasman rivalries happening on Sunday, with Australia vs New Zealand in both league and union.

When we got off the plane in Santiago, it had started in NZ and plenty of kiwis had their phones out and pumped their fists in excitement, with the All Blacks through to the final of the Rugby World Cup, 20-6. Their league cousins though, didn't quite make it. They were thoroughly hammered, 42-6. They were the ones that held the last 4 Nations trophy aloft though...

Back to School

After taking a semester break, I am back in action in my uni course. Would you believe it I now just have 4 subjects remaining to become a Master. Two of them I am taking this semester, then the next two I think will be bigger projects. This semester my two subjects overlap a bit, but I'm not going to take the option of doing the same thing for both projects.

I have only just started them in the last few minutes, so there's only a welcome post on each one, but I have developed my ideas for each one.

First idea- which will be hosted at http://capitaleyes.tumblr.com is going to be a mix between a "best of" of the zine. I have been really lazy on the zine front this year, let's see if that changes once I go back to Australia for a little while, but it will give me a chance to wrap things up. It will also mix memories of different shows and other events and follow the main character (ie: me) to where he is today.

For the second one I thought I would just do a travel blog, but really, that's too easy, and would involve writing a bunch of things I have already done before. So what I have decided to do, is theme my blog piece around the YHA Australia network. http://yhaalltheway.tumblr.com for that one. It will be a mix of reviews of the hostels, and some fun stories about the main character, which is once again, me.

So those are a couple of notable things on the writing horizon and both projects I am looking forward to working on.

National Library of Australia- zine blog

Those good people at the National Library of Australia have a started a blog to talk about the fringe world of publications, mainly the world of zines and comics etc.

Go and check it out.... https://blogs.nla.gov.au/the-eloquent-page/