[Write the Story] A Day in the Life
Prompt: A Day in the Life Words: identical, pot roast, decorate, sign, abuse, library, amnesia, butcher, submit, sensation Story: “Have you had this experience before?” Kayla blinked twice, slowly at the councilor. Did she really have to submit to such a stupid question? “Um, no. I’ve never before found myself in a butcher shop holding […]
[Write the Story] Today at the Amusement Park
There’s a “time shift” in the dates stories are written in this and the next couple of stories – pages stuck together, but I wanted to keep the notebook in order. So… —— Prompt: Today at the Amusement Park Words: Ferris wheel, revive, dinosaur, split, disk, assumption, exceed, narrow, snickerdoodle, join Story Flynn had no […]
[Write the Story] Friends on the Town
This one was written over two day – interruptions happen – but you can tell sometimes when thoughts are interrupted. I found an incomplete sentence in typing…and left it, because that’s the point of some of these exercises. If I do something more with these, I’ll fix the errors, but for now, you get the […]
[Write the Story] Business as UNusual
Prompt: Business as UNusual Words: housewife, moonwalk, dog, basement, conclude, alien, ignore, lightning, embrace, time Story Kevin was never sure how he ended up appointed to the UN, but here he was about to conclude his first speech. He couldn’t quite ignore the feeling his time was coming when they all found out he was […]
[Write the Story] A Lunch Date Gone Wrong
Prompt: A Lunch Date Gone Wrong Words: eruption, salad, fire, career, assume, roller skate, draw, promise, full moon, sweet Story “Tell us everything that happened.” I took a second to draw in a deep breath. The whole situation was so stupid, and now the Special Investigations Units of Police and Fire were involved. “Ma’am? Are […]
[Writer Post] Processes
Or…why I probably can never meet Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Jose Molina… Okay, so writing is a moderately occupation – just you, the voices in your head, the clicking of the keyboard, and/or the scratching of a pen. Hopefully leading to a big ole pile of words that don’t necessarily suck. Throughout the years many people […]
[Writer Post] Continuity
It’s Wednesday. It’s a writer blog day again. So far there’s not another huge blow up like the (as of yet unconcluded) Amazon v. Hachette brouhaha. It’s just me today – a very grateful that this week is tons better than last week me – who’s trying to figure out what to write about. I […]
[Spotlight Post] Morganville Vampires and Rachel Caine
I know I’m a day late and probably a dollar short with my Spotlight post, but I am trying to be good and still get everything in. [asa]0451219945[/asa] This week Rachel Caine – whom I’ve spotlighted before – launched a Kickstarter program to finally get her Morganville Vampire book series turned into a web series. […]