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Show Your Love
It's nearly Valentine's and the season of love. We know how humans might behave on this holiday, but what about our other characters? Do vampires share their favorite morsel? Does a serial killer find a special victim?
Special occasions can allow a writer to twist the ordinary and change the norm. A bouquet of flowers can create an asthma attack and unalive a victim. Instead of silver jewelry, perhaps a silver bullet. Special adventures can open opportunities to change scenarios, like tossing someone you love out of a hot air balloon. What an adventure!
It's not all about the template of romance and gifts...think about twisting that to suit your story, to make it unique. Use human emotions, the scene, and dialog to morph the story into an epic adventure. There is no end to the number of genre combinations you can come up with to go alone with romance/love. Give it a try.
And as always, Write On!
This month's question: Do you twist a genre to create stories outside the ordinary?
How do you use that in your writing?
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Quote Prompt for February 2025:
"The devil is in the details."
— Proverb
Excerpt: Not everyone sees the world through rose-colored glasses. We smile and laugh, only to turn away and peel off the fake identities we form to portray ourselves to others.
Existence is pain. But sometimes pain is worth something.
Excerpt: Helpless and lonely, Vina sat on the bed with her face buried in her knees. The weather department had warned that the storm would last till dawn. Drops of water from the leaky roof drenched her blouse. She heard the transformer explode in the distance. Instantaneously, her room drowned in darkness. Sobbing and trembling, she prayed for deliverance from the dark stormy night.
She heard a knock at her door and heard the familiar voice. “Vina! Vina!”
Excerpt: “Something’s on top of your car,” panted Victoria. “Let's get out of here.”
John hurled headfirst over the seats to the front. Victoria remained in the backseat. Fearing the worse, she pleaded, “Hurry, Johnny, start the car!”
Excerpt: Erik was about to hit the 11 button when the girl stumbled into the elevator, heels click-clacking on the hard floor. Her face was buried in the parcels she was hugging to her chest, but one eye peered around the edge of the pile to look at him.
“Nine, please,” she said.
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Excerpt: Within a dazzling flash of lightning, upon an eight-inch ledge just outside the twentieth floor of a high-rise apartment in New York City, the silhouette of an overweight woman is outlined against a drab brown building.
Excerpt: "I want to be a grave digger."
Edgar seemed eager to end his ennui. Moi? I aspired to alliteration. Still do. Eggy, however...
"I'm tired of filling out forms. I may as well be totally dead instead of just numb from toes up and shoulders down."
"What about your noggin?"
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This month's question: Do you twist a genre to create stories outside the ordinary?
How do you use that in your writing?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (January 15, 2025)" question: What are some of your typical character responses? Any clever responses?
TheBusmanPoet  : Normal to me is subjective and it depends on the character you're writing about. Be it Human or any living creature.
🌖 HuntersMoon  : All my character responses are clever since I tend to identify with my main character and they channel me. 
Aiden Blackwood  : For me I put my characters in a Myers Briggs personality type. I work out their background, and flaws. Then their dialogue, comes easier.
Boulden Shade (fka Jeff Meyer)  : My characters react emotionally. They act like people, of course, so there is reason to these reactions; but they tend to live in their emotions.
The funny thing is that stories are where the author can live out what he wishes he would have done in a scenario. So he sets that scenario up and makes a character to be the hero he wishes he had been in real life.
...Except, during revision--or even during the first draft sometimes--my character usually has some change of heart and behaves the way it went down in the real world in the first place. Funny.
Arsuit : My character says all the right things at exactly the right times, but he means nothing to me and I don't know why.
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