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Reading a bit about female heroes coming to the fore in science fiction because of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Mad Max: Fury Road. I reckon female heroes have been around for years, but it does depend on your definition of what a hero is. Here are some that I think fit the label: Ellen Ripley - The Alien movies Sarah Connor - The Terminator Movies Sarah Connor - The Sarah Connor Chronicles Dana Scully - The X-files Purdey - The Avengers Major Samantha Carter - Stargate Gwen Cooper - Torchwood Myka Bering - Warehouse 13 Elanor Arroway - Contact Aryan Sun - Farscape Katniss Everdeen - The Hunger Games Oliva Dunham - Fringe Echo - The Dollhouse Sarah Jane Smith - The Sarah Jane Adventures. Starbuck - Battlestar Galactica Ellie - Tomorrow When The War Began Sarah Walker - Chuck Dr. Ryan Stone - Gravity Charlie Matheson - Revolution Sarah Manning - Orphan Black Elizabeth Shaw - Prometheus. There's no doubt that female heroes are hugely underrepresented in ...

Hi all, I have gift for those who read this blog. A Christmas anthology, containing a fantasy story written by me. I have just fixed the epub and pdf file links as they did not appear to be working. epub file  mobi file pdf file    It has a diverse range of stories written by writers from the Australian Writers' Forum.    Merry Christmas. 

The graph to the left shows a drop in my word output in November, which suggests I spent a lot less time writing. That is not the case. My word output dropped because I was proofreading/editing and redrafting. I continued redrafting a novel and I also spent a week trying to finalise a long short story that was due for submission at the end of November. I ended up writing about 5820 new words of fiction for the month. Critiquing. I received three critiques of my story during the month. One was a very useful full edit, another was just a comment agreeing with the suggested edits of a previous critique, and the other… Well, first some background. I did a copy edit/critique of one of the other stories written for our Christmas anthology. It was a non-fiction story about a Christmas spent in an Aboriginal community. I really enjoyed the story, I found it informative and was interested to read about life in an Aboriginal community written by someone who had lived in o...