Hey Folks, Mab Boreal here. You know me—the Northeast Wind who works for Prospero Inc. as a company gumshoe. It has come to my attention that you humans are woefully uninformed about the dangers of the supernatural world. You walk around all day, taking absolutely no precautions. Some of you are so crazy, you even…
Somehow, last week, I skipped over The Trick–my favorite writing tip of them all! The Trick: Raising expectations in one direction but having the story first go in the opposite direction. The Trick is the secret to writing, the thing that makes a story work: expectation followed by something other than the expected outcome…
From now on, on Tuesdays, I’m going to post a link and a bit of info for a fellow writer. My hope is to give other writers a bit of exposure so that if they are someone you all might enjoy, you have the chance to learn about them. Steven G. Johnson is a…
This meager blog will be getting two new features. One on Tuesdays, and one on Thursdays. On Tuesdays, we will have Signal Boost Tuesday — When I will post a link and a bit of info for a fellow writer. My hope is to give other writers a bit of exposure so that if they…
Best caption wins!:
Many good captions…very witty. But the winner was: Let the fish fret
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…
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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This week, we had a tie! The prequel series* wasn't as popular. (*which would be "preteen, unmutated, ninja turtles" ) and Pre-Raphaelite?