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  • Friday Flash 7: Doomed

    Friday Flash 7: Doomed

    They must know by now. They’ll come for us. Someone will find us. Someone will break in.

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    September 28, 2018
  • Idea You Can Steal 11: Patient Zero

    Ordinarily, I’d make some poetic remark about the leaves changing color and the weather cooling. But the only signs of the season I’ve seen so far are pumpkin spice lattes.

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    September 21, 2018
  • Writing Prompts 9

    It’s back to old routines, and a new season is around the corner. Here are five prompts to kickstart your fall (or spring) writing.

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    September 7, 2018
  • Idea You Can Steal 10: The Moon’s Champion

    August has one more Friday left, so here’s a bonus story idea for you.

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    August 31, 2018
  • Eight Points of View: Second Person

    Eight Points of View: Second Person

    Throughout this series, I’ve described the relationship the writer has with the story — the roles he assumes to write it. The reader’s relationship to the story has been irrelevant. That’s not the case with our final two points of view: second person and second person observer-narrator. You can even say these points of view…

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    August 22, 2018
  • Second Person Observer-Narrator: Garrett Morton

    You, Dora, and the professor reach the center of the warehouse and enter the strangest room you have ever seen. In the dim light, you can make out hundreds of skulls lining the walls. They must have belonged to Vasco’s previous victims. You knew that Vasco was a monster, and now you have proof.

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    August 22, 2018
  • Second Person: Niles Vasco

    You’re rubbing alcohol onto the blade of your dagger — the ritual demands a clean blade — when you notice a change on the monitor hanging above your desk. The security cameras catch three people entering the warehouse. One is Professor Ellar. You watch them weave their way across each camera’s view. Should you stop…

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    August 22, 2018
  • Idea You Can Steal 9: Stone of Fascination

    Summer may be ending, but your writing doesn’t have to. Here’s an idea you can use as the season winds down.

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    August 17, 2018
  • Eight Points of View: Objective Third

    Eight Points of View: Objective Third

    In part 1 of this series, I explained that a story’s teller can be a character inside the story or some external entity. Nowhere is the latter situation clearer than in the case of objective third. This point of view is also known as “objective narrator”, and Ursula K. Le Guin uses the term “detached…

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    August 10, 2018
  • Objective Third

    Professor Ellar, Garrett, and Dora entered the room at the center of the warehouse. It was dimmer and warmer than the rooms they had wandered through. Human skulls stare back at them, stacked one on top of the other along three walls. The far wall was covered with a thick, red curtain. A large pentagram…

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    August 10, 2018
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