Life’s Weirder Than Fiction

Fiction Friday>> Nine Lives

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for June 5th, 2009: “Don’t sit there,” she commanded. “That’s the cat’s chair.” “Let’s talk about this,” I said. “We’ll sit down, reason it out.” I backed slowly toward the living room, my eyes glued to hers, my hands away from my body to show I didn’t mean any harm. I could see her ...

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On critique partners

I was reading Write Anything Andrea Allison’s post about Beta Readers (the first person who reads your draft to seriously critique it) and it got me thinking about how lucky I am. One of the most important criterion for a critiquer is trust. I’ve dropped from writing groups before because I didn’t trust the people who ...

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Fiction Friday>> Unrequited Love

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for May 22, 2009: A high-priced prostitute suspects that one of her best customers is falling in love with her. She looked at Daddy across the table and suppressed a smile. He had fallen for her, hook, line and sinker, she was almost sure. Why else the expensive restaurant, the champagne, the personal ...

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Fiction Friday >> Time Warp

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for May 8, 2009 A man is given the ability to go back in time and change one event in his life. It was true. He was here, five years into the past. He could relive this day, change everything. Amazingly, he had been given a second chance at making things better, at undoing ...

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How to create mood with words

I recently finished Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher and was astonished and amazed at the flowery prose. At first I thought well, yeah, he wrote it in 1839 so that explains it. But I’ve read other Poe stories and none of it was so over the top. So I reread ...

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