Caption This Winner for last week:
Many good captions…very witty. But the winner was: Let the fish fret
Wright’s Writing Corner: The Foil!
Nausicca, having removed off her breather-mask The Foil: Use other characters to showcase the strengths of your main characters and to show how they are extraordinary. The best example of the idea of a “foil”—in fact the place that the term comes from—is Hal from Shakespeare’s King Henry IV Part One. In what is probably…
Signal Boosting: Theresa Briscoe
Posting a clip from a fellow writer, Theresa Briscoe. Here's something she's working on: Excerpt from Vessels: Ari bolts straight up in bed, gasping for air. His muscular chest, naked and soaked with sweat, confines his pounding heart. Piercing screams echo inside his mind. Darkness escapes from within, consuming the shadows. The nightmare…
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Last Week’s Caption This Winner!
This week, we had a tie! The prequel series* wasn't as popular. (*which would be "preteen, unmutated, ninja turtles" ) and Pre-Raphaelite?
Very Nice Review of The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crywoof/2013/10/the-unexpected-enlightenment-of-rachel-griffin/ Excerpt: Lamplighter’s world is superficially similar to Rowling’s. It takes place here on Earth, more or less at the present day. The vast bulk of the population know nothing of magic; the remainder, known as the Wise, refer to them as the Unwary, and take careful steps to remain hidden from them.…
Wright’s Writing Corner: The Two Strings Technique
Mephisto Prospero contemplating the Two Strings Technique Two Strings: Two separate issues need to be going in each scene. In art, we create the illusion of three dimensions with contrast. A single line forming a circle looks two-dimensional to the eye. Add shading around one side and suddenly it looks like a ball…
Goodreads Best of the Year Contest
If you have read The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin and you'd like to vote for it in the Goodreads contest for Best YA SF/Fantasy. You can write the title in at the bottom, here: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-young-adult-fantasy-books-2013 (You may need to be logged in to do a write-in.)
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Caption This Winner for last week:
Many amusing answers, but this one amused the most. (And, yes, if you were wondering, this picture is photoshopped.) "I don't CARE if it would sound better! You may NOT move the piano to the other side of the room!"