Boy, we had some good ones this week! I'm going to reprint a few below, but the winner, the most wonderful of the wonderful was: "No dreaming of impossible dreams within the city limits" Some other good ones: Next thing they'll have are (golden) helmet laws Four-armed giant habitat. No tilting.…
Next in our series of posts expanding on my Writing Tips list, we have: Open active: Start scene with changes underway and then explain how you got there…unless change are significant. First: what do I mean by openings? In this case, I mean the beginnings to new scenes and chapters. Much of this…
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Hail all! Sorry for missing last week. Between Website glitches and snowdays, nothing got posted. Here is the winner for two weeks ago: It was very hard to pick this week. There were LOTS of good ones, but the winner is: I -told- you that Jurassic Park was a terrible venue! Special Doctor Who…
Mab here, Prospero Inc. company gumshoe. As part of my campaign to protect you woefully-uninformed humans from your own folly—in hopes of saving even one of you from an elf-induced death, or worse—here is some of my gathered wisdom concerning the supernatural world. Read. Pay attention. And maybe you’ll live. For those of you who…
Interior Dialogue: Readers don't trust dialogue. Have your characters think, and have what they think be juxtaposed to the dialogue, showing a new angle. This one I learned the hard way. When I first started writing novels, I was under the impression that the best writing was like a screen play, all dialogue. So, I…
I don’t normally do a long introduction for Signal Boost Tuesdays, but I felt this particular author deserved a little bit extra. I grew up in a small town where we went to school with the same kids for all thirteen years. It was a mainly conservative town of people who worked in New York.…
Susan had heard Monkey Nose Rings were the next big thing. but once she got one she wasn't so sure… Use the horse, Luke!