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Shattered Glass: Chapter 1: Birthday SurprisesShattered Glass: Chapter 1: Birthday Surprises by =DrippingWords
"Come on, Aliya! Blow out the candles! Just because you're seventeen now, doesn't mean you cannot have fun!" James' voice broke through my reverie, and I attempted a smile, for my guests' sakes. Puckering my lips, I held a thought in my head as I blew out the candles: please let this year be a normal one.
Everyone cheered when the last candle was out, and gathered around the picnic table for the slices my mother was handing out. I was grateful that she had worn clothes that were at least remotely common; as a fashion empress, she usually dressed in something so outrageous, it was stupid. But today, for my sake, she was dressed in a normal pa
Nano 2012 - Day 045.Nano 2012 - Day 04 by =Aconitum-Napellus
Later, Judith lies in her bed under the bedspread that she sewed from scraps found in multiple scavenging trips. One of the strange, wonderful things about the location that she chose to live in is the tip just a few miles away and the bounty that can be found there. She has learnt just how hard it is for fabric to biodegrade in anaerobic conditions. She has gathered whole outfits for herself and Leah from that place, that required only a little mending or patching to make them usable.
The bedspread is soft and many-coloured, many-patterned and ever changing. When a hole appears, she covers it with another patch. In this way it has evolved through her life. Once it covered her and John together, before John went away. When Leah was small and needed the protection of her mother at night it covered her large body and Leah's tiny one. It held warm air beneath it and her breath mingled with Leah's, and she felt safe.
It is hot in her room tonight after the sun has been baking down all d
Nano 2012 - Day 03When she gets home the raspberries are still out as an offering to the sun. It seems a shame to have the life shrivelled out of them like that. Leah reaches through and picks up one – just one – from the line of fruit. Then she feels guilty at the disturbance, at the gap in her mother's order. She goes to the bushes and picks a single raspberry and replaces it – but it looks different, and she knows that her mother will know.Nano 2012 - Day 03 by =Aconitum-Napellus
She puts her bag down on the grass and goes over to the raspberry canes and crouches there, picking fruit after fruit off their white anchors and pushing them between her lips. She is hungry and thirsty after being out in the woods, and the raspberries sate both needs, at least for a while. But her mother will see the pink on her lips and fingers. Maybe guilt is part of being alive.
She sucks the sharp juice taste from her fingers and examines the tips. Still pink, but not so pink. They look unnaturally clean, behind that clean-pink stain. Her ha
NaNo Novel 2011 Chapter 01Chapter 1NaNo Novel 2011 Chapter 01 by ~Worland102688
The tavern was dark and full of chatter, not loud chatter of people arguing but the quiet chatter of patrons talking among themselves over drinks. Nathaniel made his way to the one of the few open tables in the Waystone inn in the corner near the fireplace. removing his cloak from his shoulders he draped it over the chair closest to the wall and walked up to the bar. A man with red hair came out of the kitchen just as Nathaniel reached the bar. The man was known as Kote but everyone knew there was something more to the man then he showed. He was not merely an innkeeper.
"One mug of ale please Kote."
The man nodded, and brought a
A Note on Writing CharactersA Note on Writing Characters by *jamberry-song
My dearest, darling Author:
I enjoyed reading your book, I really did. But there were some things that simply got on my nerves.
Your need to tell me absolutely everything, as if every tiny detail were just so integral to the plot, was supremely annoying. I do not need to know a character's hair and eye color when I first meet them, or every detail down to the style of his buttons when he walks into a scene; I do not necessarily need to know what his lunch was or that he went bowling with the guys last Saturday and has been in the league for five years. Take for instance that scene on the veranda, where the one protagonist stepped up to the
Writing Tips - OrganisationWriting Tips - Organisation by ~Mae-Jay
Writing Without Confusing Yourself (Or Your Readers)
Writing is a very personal, individual undertaking. Everybody approaches the activity a bit differently from the next guy. Some people can come up with concept, plot, characters, and everything else and just sit down and write. Others need to take time to figure out what's going on; what's going to happen in the story, and how it all fits together. Others still will find themselves getting stuck somewhere along the middle, losing track of everything or changing an idea mid-way through, or never know how to end. These are the people for whom this has been put together. Those of you who can
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