Original short fiction ‘workshop’

Profitron includes original fiction, humour and satire by Luke Skelton (me). This is where I regularly force myself to publish my work to help improve my craft.

You get better by doing. That’s something my sex coach told when she noticed I hadn’t improved… ever. So here I force myself to develop ideas, draft stories, edit prose, polish, prune and publish. I work on: sentence structure, character, plot structure, theme, genre, tension, humour, headings, endings, beginnings!

This page is about experimentation. Some posts will be about topics which certain reader don’t care about. Say, for example, sport, or more specifically Greg Norman or Mark Taylor related posts. I write this in the hopes that readers, by understanding this is me live-streaming my training, will stick around.

This post might not be your style but the next one might be. I’ve been reluctant to pigeon hole (at least not in a sexual way) this page. I don’t want it to be all family-related literary fiction or political satire or absurdist humour. I just want to practice.

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About the writer

Luke Skelton is a Melbourne-based writer. He has worked in bottleshops, hospitality, call centres, government and consulting. He has been in love and fallen out. He has many quirky relatives and amazing friends. All of these factors influence his writing.

He, meaning me or I, can be contacted via email at: lukeskelton.profitron@gmail.com

About the name

Profitron was a Japanese robot designed in 1989 by Iodyne Systems. It was created to do one thing: make profit. Unfortunately, the robot had some algorithm issues that caused it to conclude the best way to make profit was to write short fiction.

The work was quite ordinary and the robot was let go, made redundant.

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Writer from Melbourne, Australia. https://profitron.substack.com/