At one time I wanted to try my hand at writing children’s stories. This one was written for a friend’s son who was afraid of the dark. Ryker One day not so long ago lived a small dragon named Cedric. His scales were a shiny orange and he was the smallest dragon in his family….
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The Murder Next Door
If I didn’t know better, I would swear that it was Durant Rawlins, my Durant. But that couldn’t be possible. I agree the name was the same, and in a certain way the man did kind of look like him, okay totally looked like him. When the couple first moved in across the street, I…
Sailing to the Stars
“Let me help.” Michael exhaled through clenched teeth at the sound of the voice. He was in no mood to deal with people. A deep breath and a quick count to three was enough to talk with the man who had become his neighbor six months ago. “Thanks for the help. Casting off has always…
Planned Works
Simplified overview of series Over the years Mythal has planned. Nudged, pushed to create the one who will help her with task. The one who is destined to free all. She has had many daughters and many vessels. Knowledge of the coming blight Flemeth created the circumstance for the vessel of the old one. That…
Project 2020
I was invited to participate in this forum earlier this year. And it is good. The forum owner really tries to make it great. It is one of those places where all mediums are there music, art work, videos … if you create it … it has a home. But unfortunately the people are…
Complicated
My favorite line in the work is …
Dude, you have to have sex to get pregnant. You’re a virgin so either she’s wrong or…. hello Mary.
Where the Wild Things Are
It’s funny how music and writing go hand in hand. Actually, I think all forms of art feed and feed into other art. Have you ever been listening to a song and started thinking about a story that goes with it? Me, it happens all the time … in fact I think I have twelve…
Characterization
I indulged this weekend and rented a couple of movies from Redbox. One was a film I wanted to watch before I read the book. The other I watched because I had an idea like it and wanted to see what they did with it. I am a self-stated ‘book purest’ well that is the…
List for creativity
Everyday Inspiration Day two assignment. Compile a list to open the doors of creativity. (Here is what they suggested: things I like, things I learned, things I wish, and lastly things I am good at.) Funny thing is I had already done that for the year. Well not their list but stuff I had seen,…
Audience and what do I want from you
Day Four: Identify Your Audience. We often create posts hoping that a specific person (or persons) will see our work. Who is your ideal reader? Today, publish a post you would like your ideal reader to see. Here’s how: First, brainstorm the kind of person you hope will read your blog. What do you want…
Writers Work out
One of the writing groups that I am part of on facebook is called the writers Workout. The are doing what they call a Prompt Series. It is a series of 30 random prompts that are put together to create a story. I thought I could share here and the story could unfold as we…
Blogging Fundamentals again
I recently started posting to my blog again. And came to a conclusion, I have abandonment issues. I smiled as I wrote that because I was thinking about all of the readers who would roll their eyes. Not abandonment in the classic sense of the word, but letting something go with the intention of coming…
Gone
The daily prompt : Gone Sometimes against all odds the bad guys win the day. All the white hats are Gone. Mitchell pulled the small plastic red card from the beeping machine and looked at the thing in puzzlement. He examined the back and could still faintly read the outline of his signature. It looked…
Prey
Here is another offering for the deities of storytelling. It was written from a prompt I receive a couple years ago. “Make your Protagonist a monster and have him/her meet a bigger monster.” Writing this story was kind of fun. It could be dark without being morbid. And while many people aren’t crazy about first…
Goals and schedules
In the third assignment of writing 101 we were supposed to commit to a writing schedule. See I am more of a free bird and very organic in writing … no outlines, just off the top of my head in the heat of the moment so to speak. But since I was not really accomplishing…
Commit to a writing practice- Writing 101
Today, celebrate three songs that are significant to you. For your twist, write for fifteen minutes without stopping — and build a writing habit. Being a child of the eighties, or at least identifying that way, it was all about the big hair bands, arena rock, punctuated by the easy sounds of Gordon Lightfoot and…
Unlocking the Mind
To get started, let’s loosen up. Let’s unlock the mind. Today, take twenty minutes to free write. And don’t think about what you’ll write. Just write. -And for your first twist? Publish this stream-of-consciousness post on your blog. I sat there for what must have been twenty minutes trying to push the start button on my cellphone…
Writing 101
Tomorrow starts my writing exercise called writing 101. It is thirty days of writing prompts with twists and a community who is supposed to read and make comments on what you write. I love working with prompts because we all get the same idea but the results from different writers are so different. And when…
Translation of visual storytelling to novel writing
As part of my degree, I was required to take a screenwriting class which of course I approached with mixed feelings. To start with I prefer books to movies. That’s not to say I don’t appreciate a good show, but a movie made from a book usually has me running in the other direction. For…
And so it begins… to borrow a phrase
I grew up on science fiction. It was my first love. The first movie I remember was when I was four years old and dressed in footy pajamas and going to the drive in to see Star Wars. My grandmother, a huge Star Trek fan, had it on in the house all the time. My…
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