I'm perilously close to the end, with a couple of loose ends I need to tie up. It's pushing the bloated 120,000 word mark at this point, and will...
Ugh, Zip disks. I still wake up at night thinking about the "Click of Death" that took an entire manuscript AND my thesis. I did learn a lesson...
I often work in the other direction. Rather than having a soundtrack as I write a character, I will be listening to music and think, "hey, that...
Ha, okay then. Though I didn't intend it as such, the wiki I linked to has several other brown-spectrum colors listed on the bottom. When I...
Sienna might be another good place name that is also a color. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_sienna
Dust. Even if it's a paved country lane, they may swerve onto the shoulder and kick up swirling plumes of dirt and dust.
I just feel that the word "Chartreuse" needs to be in this thread. Perhaps someone very regal: Lady Eleanor Chartreuse?
Jacob staggers to his feet, not quite certain what it was that knocked him flat this time around. It isn't a habit he is happy about developing,...
It also never hurts to draft out your dialogue, and then go back and fine tune it once the setting falls into place. You might know what you want...
I wish I'd had INTERNET when I was 15. :) To the OP: I'm newer here than you are, but thought I'd say my hello as well.
Having just joined the forum, I thought I'd say hello the the community. I'm an aspiring novelist that wanders back and forth between...
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