The 2012 Koala Challenge
I think we'll call this column an 'example' of a typical month for a while...keep picking up the badges, though!
Keep writing, keep submitting and earn Koala Love Points! Report in at the end of every month and She Who Is Always Right will total your points and let you know which badge you may display on the side of your blog.
New victims always welcome - please let me know in the comment trail of the latest post. Full instructions for the 2012 challenge here!
Nine or more points:
Angie
Stevie
Pam
Rick (who's Rick? Ah well, he reported in)
Eight points:
Seven points:
Six points:
6 Iasa (it was 5.5, but I'm rounding her up out of amazement. I think it's an Iasa Record)
Five points:
Four points:
Three points:
Two points
One point
Pete
"We were on a break..."
Displease the Koala by neglecting your writing altogether and you may find yourself joining Sarah
KOALA SMACKDOWN
Displease the Koala even more and she may call in her slippery sidekick and put you on:
SUPER-SMACKDOWN!
Aniket
Robin
With thanks to JJ de Benedictis for the fantastic artwork (and her fine abilities with toenail pliers).
Keep writing, keep submitting and earn Koala Love Points! Report in at the end of every month and She Who Is Always Right will total your points and let you know which badge you may display on the side of your blog.
New victims always welcome - please let me know in the comment trail of the latest post. Full instructions for the 2012 challenge here!
Nine or more points:
Angie
Stevie
Pam
Rick (who's Rick? Ah well, he reported in)
Eight points:
Seven points:
Six points:
6 Iasa (it was 5.5, but I'm rounding her up out of amazement. I think it's an Iasa Record)
Five points:
Four points:
Sempra
Whirl (how'd he beat me?! That never happens!)
Three points:
3 McK
Two points
Mar
Sylvia
One point
Pete
"We were on a break..."
Jenna
JJdeGoblin
Displease the Koala by neglecting your writing altogether and you may find yourself joining Sarah
on
KOALA SMACKDOWN
Displease the Koala even more and she may call in her slippery sidekick and put you on:
SUPER-SMACKDOWN!
Aniket
Robin
With thanks to JJ de Benedictis for the fantastic artwork (and her fine abilities with toenail pliers).
About Me
- McKoala
- A marsupial with pretensions to humanity. E-mail the tartan furball at mckoalarado at gmail dot com.
18 comments:
This is terrific in every respect. The imagery is superb and your voice teases the words off the page and into the air beautifully.
You, too, have a lovely voice and ditto everything WO said.
Will you be signing up to read other's work too?
What a lovely voice you have: so clear, so calm and so elegant.
Wow McK. Amazing voice - and, as you mentioned with mine, it's not the voice I had in my head for you.
Beautiful voice, beautiful reading, wonderful story.
well now, that was superb, in every way! :)
FH said it perfectly. I thing your voice has a legitimate natural beauty to it.
Lovely, lovely voice! It has a very wonderful, lyrical quality. How fun.
Ahhh. *sigh* I'm in love. This is my favorite accent in the whole world. And you read beautifully. I could listen to you for hours. Maybe you and Patrick Stewart will do a duet some day? *sigh*
You know, I've been thinking about the possibility of having to read my stuff aloud lately, and I'm dreading the idea of having to cuss in front of people I don't know. So, no, I ain't joining in this one.
And your voice is nothing like I thought it would be.
Gee, you're all making me blush. Thanks! I hate to ask - what did you think I'd sound like?!
Sarah, line Patrick up and I'll do it for a wedding present!
Conduit, what better place to start than a warm, friendly audience? Also, you can allow yourself several practices before committing yourself to the airwaves. Choose a clean bit if you're worried about the language - or listen to WO's to get your courage up!
Given the Scottish/Oz thing, I had an idea you'd sound coarser than an old yard brush.
But far from it — and no fur tickling at the microphone either.
I'm guessing writers are increasingly being called upon to read extracts of their stuff. If so — you're quids in, both in terms of material and delivery.
Nicely done. I'm no accent expert at all, but you don't sound completely anything. Certainly the Scottish shines through above all else, but bits of a proper, almost RP, dialect seem to be in there, and other things I'm too ignorant to identify. Maybe you're just a very proper Scot.
Would you mind saying "If it's not Scottish, it's crap," for us?
figgered you'd sound like my other aussie friends... and you do ;)
What an interesting accent you have. I'd have guessed West Country, I think. It's ... much softer than I'd expect from a Scots/Aussie mix!
I had an idea you'd sound coarser than an old yard brush.
Sorry to disappoint!
Paca, I say that every day. I think the accent is all over the place due to my moving around. I think I may be a bit of a mixed-up mongrel on a basis of 'proper' Scot. My mother certainly is (a proper Scot that is). Add in some London, some US, some Europe and some Australia and this is what you get.
Nice voice, Olivia.
I love your accent--it's soft. I guess what Paca said.
It's blended.
Very nice!
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