“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” Orson Scott Card
Monthly Archives: March 2019
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To curse or not to curse… Perhaps I’m not alone in wondering where curse words should exist when writing. I have read novels that contain swear words and read others that don’t. I’ve even read fantastic books where the author makes up a brand new way to say the F-word.
I took a deep cleansing breath, and my lungs were quenched. The air outside was like drinking a glass of cold water. The breeze was slight and all around smelled clean and fresh. The sun was slowly rising in the east but had yet to peak above the horizon leaving […]
My heart feels…wrong. My body is crying out to me to change my ways and yet I continue down a path of self-destruction. I drank again last night. Not much. Not as much as I used to have done. But this morning, after I got up and let the dogs […]
Jazz played in his headphones. Where are you? By the Ben Webster Quintet. It was definitely a Jazz type of morning. Jim used music to change his reality. The right song or style of music could transport him, at least emotionally, to another place. What he really wanted was […]
12 Minutes Jim’s heartbeat increased, adrenaline flowed through his veins helping him remain hyper-alert. He scanned his surroundings, careful not to make a sound. His breath came and went through his nose, slowly. With eyes wide, his forehead felt tight, and he saw with his ears as much as his […]