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D'Arcy Lloyd Author
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Contributing author in the High Country Writers micro story collection ‘Diving into Deep Water’, published on 19 July 2025. Former corporate advisor. Kamilaroi country, New England northern NSW.
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It was Jude's doing, amidst peak-Covid. "What about a 300 word micro story based on a random prompt each month to keep us all working?" she'd said. It seemed un-matey to decline because I had too much on my plate. My inner voice grunted, ‘Get a bigger plate, go with your first thought, and make it work regardless of how hard or unsatisfactory the outcome!’ With multiple long form works languishing on hold, it was a serious distraction. I had found freedom after decades of deadlines and wordcounts, what was I thinking! Commitment is, so I went and stuck with it. Initially, it was fun, then sometimes irritating when the story commanded ten times the word count. I had authored hundreds – thousands? – corporate documents over decades, all confidential and now long past their use-by-dates. Ultimately, the collective energy brought seven of us here, Diving into Deep Water. I hope I to look back at Diving into Deep Water as the springboard (apologies) that had driven me back to complete and have published all those long-form stories that are still sitting on the edge, waiting to be pushed. To borrow, or pillage the swimming analogies a bit more, this opportunity might be more like taking the first steps into the shallow end arm-in-arm with a group of 'emergers', than doing a solo triple-loop into the deep from the ten metre platform. Gratitude to the authors and to Michael Burge, Richard Moon, The Makers Shed and High Country Books for everything https://themakersshed.org/about/.
June 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM