#8WordStory

Those on the Queensland feeds might have come across #8WordStory, a project organised by the awesome folk at the Queensland Writers Centre to put eight word stories on billboards across Brisbane.

It was October when the call first went out and I was swooning, as I do every year, over the purple bliss of Brisbane’s jacarandas.

So I penned a paean to purple & lo! it was selected to be shown across town. I did not get a lot of work done that day because I was glued to the webcams, thus:

The #8WordStory project is on for another fortnight or so. Head to the QWC website and submit, & you might see your name up in orange lights! Trust me, it’s pretty darn exciting. And here's another jacaranda pic for the heck of it.