If we're talking future, why not go full sci-fi? A hypothetical super-strong wire built with nanotechnology could retain its stiffness without a...
Writing in first person for multiple persons would be a heck of a challenge, but if you pull it off it would have all the benefits of both first...
AOL and their ilk were booming in the 90s, so if you want to avoid the internet, you'd have to go further back. I'd go with the 60s. High...
Seems like you're describing a flavor of Stockholm Syndrome, which is a real thing, so I say it COULD be realistic, but not as a love story. More...
Sometimes it's best to keep it simple. I would just write the full chase scene, then put the flashback in the middle. You might need to tweak some...
I have the opposite problem with sad scenes: when I write them, they seem too artificial. I suspect it's because I'm more likely to be angry than...
Contradictions are often used deliberately as a literary device. This case in particular has a way of drawing you further in: it leads you one...
There's the rub. The line between adult and young adult is razor thin on an individual level and more so when you're talking about an audience....
I've been trying to write novels for a number of years, but I keep running into the same couple of roadblocks. Typically I either end up writing...
It is foolish, Lightning, to think you act on your own initiative. Your existence, even the possibility of your existence, hinges upon my absence,...
It is prohibited on these premises to suffer a lachrymatory reaction to the unintended outpouring of dairy products. A penny saved is a penny earned.
A woman in a bright red dress walked into a store, held up a manicured finger to silence the chatty clerk, and glared. New prompt: An old man...
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