Come for the Mysteries. Stay for the Characters.
My featured author this week is Ronnel Kay Gibson, whose short story “Those Who Stayed” in Christmas fiction off the beaten path, is a drama centered around a life-changing question. My prompt isn’t the same question, but I thought I’d choose one that had similar consequences. Your main characters is alone by a body of water and sees… Continue Reading →
Learning how to write action scenes is a technique that will serve most writers, whether you write adventures stories, scifi, or in other genres. I found this post by Michelle Griep on Inspired Prompt extremely helpful. It confirmed some ideas I had already formed about writing action scenes and gave me additional guidelines to make… Continue Reading →
This blog post is not for the people who leap out of bed every day ready to take on the world. It is not for the people who face a challenge with eagerness and a certainty that they are up to the fight. No. This blog post is for the people who hear the 6… Continue Reading →
Giveaway! To celebrate the publication of my YA mystery short story, “A Rose from the Ashes” in Christmas fiction off the beaten path, I am holding a giveaway! Below are photos of the two prize packages. To enter, just leave comment on this post. It can be as simple as “I’m in!”. The giveaway runs from… Continue Reading →
To prepare you for this week’s interview with Michelle L. Levigne, today’s prompt is a picture appropriate for steampunk. That’s the genre of Michelle’s short story, “Crystal Rose” in Christmas fiction off the beaten path. If you are new to this genre, it’s a kind of speculative fiction. Usually set in the late 1800’s or early… Continue Reading →
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