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And I Ran....
My new desk together, I sat here at my old dying laptop, the sun filtering on the keys. Try as I might, nothing would come out. Nothing. I knew the plot I knew the people, but with the exception of one book, I didn't really know the place. I was frustrated. So I did something I never thought I'd do ( Read more... ) -
Your Nightmare is my Dream
Thank you all for the warm birthday wishes.
Just in case you were wondering, there were no magical ponies this year. I really wanted a nice quiet birthday. So we went here: http://www.whimsicalley.com/ . It's great store meant to look like Diagon Alley. I got a set of fancy pen nibs and ( Read more... ) -
Night of a Thousand Prompts!
Well, not really.
But since something woke me up ( this is the fourth night this week I have been woken up at 3:05 in the morning) I figure I might as well start posting some of the prompt responses I have gotten. Expect some trickling in this morning.
And if you'd like to send me more prompts please do so I'm writing and drawing!
writing, prompts, novelPrompt me!
So, seeing as I am in a creative dry spell in the midst of a chapter I need your help.
I ask of you your prompts.
I will write snippets from the world of the novel I'm working on. You will get to read these. I ask for a sentence and each prompt must include one mythical creature.
That is all.
Prompt me!I Tread the Ground with Ghosts
All the main characters from my novels live on my block. Tensie lives across the street in the red brick apatment building with her Dad and two siblings. Sometimes she leans out of the window, blowing big blue bubbles of Bubble Yum that match her hair. Rabiyya lived in my childhood home with her mother and younger brother. Sometimes she drives her ( Read more... )On Characters and Self
The Characters in my second novel are actually my oldest. I've been writing them for sooo long that they seem like old friends.
When I first conjured them up, I never realized how each one was a piece of my personality.
That brings up a question. As a writer can you ever make a character that does not in a way have a piece of you inside them?
Like, ( Read more... )Excerpt from The Darkest Night
So I'm bored and working out plot for one of my novels. I decided I'd give you all a little snippet of a dialogue between the main characters. So it's behind the cut if you like. Feel free to ask for more elaboration.
Even when she smiled she looked intensely sad. Her eyes held such pain, and if she had ever aged it would have shown in other ( Read more... )