Come for the Mysteries. Stay for the Characters.
If you want a nature scene to come to life for your readers, you may have to close your eyes to nature so you can tune into your other senses. I used this idea as a prompt two years ago and thought it’d be valuable to repost. If you can, visit the natural location where… Continue Reading →
The ocean breeze blew my hair across my sunglasses as I sat at the table on the porch of the beach restaurant. The fragrance of grilling shrimp and garlic stoked my hunger after a morning of swimming. “Glad you made it, Hailey,” said my younger sister Emma, flipping back her long, chocolate brown hair. “You… Continue Reading →
This month I am focusing on how to maximize the senses in your writing. So my Monday sparks will have pictures to encourage you to describe a scene using all five senses. Whether you have directly experienced a setting, or imaging a character in one, it helps to make a list of what your character… Continue Reading →
What senses would you use, or need to invent, if you were writing from the point of view (POV) of a mythical creature? If I was writing this scene from the dragon’s POV, I would write that it had the same organ some snakes have on their faces to detect heat. Would the dragon be… Continue Reading →
May is historical fiction on JPC Allen Writes. Along with having guest authors share their process for writing historical fiction, I’ll have prompts to relating this genre. If you like history, what time periods do you like to read about in fiction? Because my mind seems bent on crime, I like my historical fiction to… Continue Reading →
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