NOTHING There’s not a damn thing you can do about it. Once it’s done, it’s done. People always tend to act before they think. Once they realized they’ve made a mistake, they think it’s so easy to fix. Well, I’ll tell you something right now: mistakes are not easy to fix. You can’t take a hammer and just smash something to fit together again....
Tanner ran down the stairs, past the kitchen, through the living room, and dashed out the front door. He didn’t even bother to call goodbye to his mother or father. They both had a day off from work so they were most likely still sleeping anyway. If anything, they woke up to the front door slamming behind Tanner. Not that he had meant...
Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Things about myself? Well I’m not sure where to begin. I really don’t like talking about myself *cough* but if I must pontificate about myself at length I will marshal on. It’s funny because as a writer you are of two minds the narcissist and the demur. I say this laughingly because if you give me...
The phone rang and rang in the other room. Angie remained seated on the leather couch in her living room listening to it chime over and over. The ring was murmured as she only had the one phone in the whole house, and it was in the kitchen. It was fairly easy to ignore, but she couldn’t help but listen to it. She...
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You’ve probably heard of Sindarin and Quenya even if you don’t know a word of either language. These two constructed languages which J.R.R. Tolkien created have, for many, become the benchmarks of languages used in fantasy and for science fiction, there is Klingon from the Star Trek universe. Writing in a secondary world means creating not only peoples and cultures but also the world’s...
Via Pinterest Throughout the month of October I’ve been outlining a novel titled To The Fullest for NaNoWriMo next month. The other day, I stepped out of the shower and a brand new novel idea smacked me in the face. It had nothing to do with the novel I was planning to write. Nothing to do with George Florence. It wasn’t even an idea I had...
Start with: I once asked… I once asked him if he was ever going to be happy in his relationship. From what I could tell, he didn’t seem to be very smitten with his current girlfriend. I had liked him for a while, but I was too slow in asking him out. Now he was dating some floozy for the past two years...
“You think Richard doesn’t want a lawyer because then they’ll prove Beth innocent and Richard guilty?” Lilah asked. George nodded as a curt response. Lilah turned away from George and watched Richard, Beth, and Barney in the interrogation room. Barney was patiently waiting for Beth to calm down enough so they could begin to get to the bottom of the situation. Beth was distraught...
Have you ever been to a place that awe-struck you and you wanted to stay forever? Maybe you’ve been to a place that’s disgusted you and you wanted to leave right away. Create a new world for your character. It can be a whole city, it can be a house or building, or it can just be one room. Go into detail about this...
