author of celtic, medieval, gothic and fairytale inspired fiction
Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
The poppies lay scattered across a field of green.
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Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
This wasn’t my choice.
And please, if you’re up for it, and it inspires you, share what you’ve written in the comments below!
Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
I stood, alone, in the wind and the rain.
And please, if you’re up for it, and it inspires you, share what you’ve written in the comments below!
Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
I asked the Faerie Queen to break my curse but she broke my mind instead.
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Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
The nightmares didn’t stop when the sun came up.
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Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
It’s odd the things you remember when you’re watching someone die.
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Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
I was always the one being hunted.
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Yes. It’s October and you know what that means. NaNoWriMo is coming.
It’s October 15th which means there’s just over two weeks until November is upon us.
Eek! Don’t ask me what I’m writing cause I don’t know yet.
Having participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) since 2005, I like to think I’ve picked up a tip or two along the way.
So, I’ve decided to share.
Tip #1: Pace yourself. Writing 50,000 words in 30 days may seem like a massive undertaking and leave you feeling completely overwhelmed, but the truth is it doesn’t have to. 1,667 words per day is completely doable, and if you break it down into even smaller goals… say 834 words in the morning and 834 words at night it’ll be an even easier goal to smash.
Tip #2: It’s never to early to kill off a character. In NaNoWriMo… anything goes. I once killed of a main character in the first chapter. Surprisingly, it worked and pushed the other characters forward. Death scenes take up a lot of words. So, does sex.
Tip #3: Editing is for December. Turn off your inner editor. Yes, it’s hard, but completely doable.
Tip #4: Turn off distractions. Procrastinating is the worst enemy to any NaNoer. If it helps set a timer, and turn off the WiFi. Research is fun, but time consuming.
Tip #5: Have fun. Because if you’re not having fun while writing, there’s really no point.
And there it is. I hope you find these tips helpful.
Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
Hungry dogs are never loyal.
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Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
And suddenly we were strangers again.
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It’s time to SHARE what you’re working on!
The rules are pretty simple, if you want to play along.
Just share up to 500 words in the comments from something you’ve been working on.
This is taken from something new I’m working on.
The ladies of the house were versed in all the fine arts. Music, dance, flower arranging and necromancy. Nowadays there wasn’t much call for raising the dead, but once my grandmother said, it was a perfectly acceptable line of work.
I’d never had reason to want to bring someone back from the dead until now.
Except that, wiser heads in my family forbade it. Too much could go wrong.
As I sat on the floor, at the center of a circle of salt with four candles burning at each of the four directions and began to chant, my black cat, Raven, darted into the room disrupting the circle of salt and setting back my spell work.
“Raven!”
It’s not much… but its a project I’m very excited about.
Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
Truth, is often stranger than fiction.
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Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
There is no us, there never was.
And please, if you’re up for it, and it inspires you, share what you’ve written in the comments below!
It’s time to SHARE what you’re working on!
The rules are pretty simple, if you want to play along.
Just share up to 500 words in the comments from something you’ve been working on.
This is taken from PENDRAGON which I’m struggling with right now. Hopefully it comes together by the August 9th deadline.
“Mordred!” I looked up, to find Macha running towards me. The wind blowing her raven locks into her eyes, forcing her to stop and brush her hair back behind her ears.
“Ems,” I greeted.
“Guess what?”
“Um…” I pretended to think. “I give up. What?”
“Queen Mab has said I can attend tonight’s solstice ball.”
I smiled. Knowing Mab as I did, meant I knew why Macha had been allowed to attend.
At nineteen Macha was considered of age amount fey kind. But I knew something Queen Mab didn’t about her youngest daughter.
Macha liked girls. I knew because I’d caught her with Evanthe in the stables when they thought nobody else was around.
Which would possibly put a spanner in tonight’s festivities. If I was correct in my assumptions, there was only one reason, I could think of as to why Queen Mab would allow Macha to the Solstice Ball. She’d found a suitor and was planning on marrying Macha off — tonight.
And Macha wouldn’t be happy. She’d be pissed. Her temper was well known throughout the Winter Court.
Another Sunday has rolled around again and with it comes another installation of Story Prompt Sunday!
I hope you enjoy today’s opening line…
Regret is a powerful emotion but and even stronger motivator.
And please, if you’re up for it, and it inspires you, share what you’ve written in the comments below!