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Editors Picks 1. Ascendance 2. Independence Day 3. Supergreen 4. Happy Birthday 5. Foresight, Chapter 1
Excerpt: On a distant planet at the far edge of the galaxy, hot zephyrs gust across blistering dunes sending eddies of acrid dust twisting into an otherwise cloudless sky. A solitary object, distorted by heat waves, hovers like an alien sculpture over the barren sand. The elliptical artifact stands six feet high. Although stationary, its smooth surface moves like roiling thunderclouds.
Excerpt: Alien Grays with eyes aglow between the crosses, row on row, stood in the field with dark intent, (from planet Photon they were sent.)
Excerpt: Supergreen, the alien substance given to us by those weird-looking aliens, the ones not from Mars or Venus or anywhere else I’ve ever heard of, but from some place clear out of our solar system -- that Supergreen stuff is great.
Excerpt: “Happy birthday,” said the voice.
Excerpt: The afternoon was disappearing and I still had not made my way home. It had nothing to do with the rain or the wind as it blew me around but more to do with what I saw. Put simply, I saw the truck as it ran over the medium and role three times before it hit the side of the building landing on the its roof with wheels spinning up in the air. I saw this happening as the sun set, not now when the sun was behind the darkest cloud in the sky. How I saw it, I do not know, but I did, and so I was sitting in a doorway across from the building just waiting. Submitted by Our Readers
Vincent Coffin   writes: ROFL, It happens to me all the time. What I do is simple...I keep writing, kind of wandering down whatever parallel road is headed in the same direction. I've found that a story will sometimes write itself and become better than the plan was to begin with.Bryant RedHawk  writes: I have tried the architect method and do use it for non-fiction writing, which is where it works for me.When I am writing fiction (especially fantasy) I find the good old outline method works best to keep me on track. I am a firm believer in the old adage, Writers write, then revise and correct. When I try to follow a strict set of blueprints for a fiction novel, it strangles my creative flow. In trying to stick with the "Plan" I find myself not letting the story flow onto the page and my stories suffer great disasters because of the limits I have placed on my creativity. creatress writes: Don't feel bad. I have learned that it is best to allow stories to tell themselves. All too often, an author will try to force a story into a specific direction and that is the best way to stiffen a story and will overwrite the reader's ability to suspend their suspension of disbelief. At least, that has been my experience. That's especially true when you are working on characterization. BIG BAD WOLF is Howling  writes: Hmm, lots of branches? Try an Interactive.  Elfin Dragon-finally published writes: Character creations? I know I'm a bit late with this but...Once I start writing and know I've got a story I think about the characters in the story as individuals. They become close friends, you might say. I ask them what they like, don't like, favorite colors, what drives them, who they love most, who they hate and sometimes what they want out of the story. The last one may sound strange but it does sometimes help me, especially if its a short story. |
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