Katherine Frances's Blog, page 34
July 28, 2018
July 27, 2018
aureliobooks:
me: [writes a vague sentence that suddenly becomes an entire backstory & subplot...
me: [writes a vague sentence that suddenly becomes an entire backstory & subplot for a few different characters and connects most of the loose ends I’ve been worried about for days]
me, three seconds later after realizing what I’ve done: oh? ohoho? ohohoho???
wnq-writers:
“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the...
“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”—
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
writing tip
everything can have a dragon if you try hard enough
July 26, 2018
brynwrites:
Our Bloody Pearl‘s protagonist Perle will arrive...
Our Bloody Pearl‘s protagonist Perle will arrive tomorrow!“If you rush this, you’ll hurt yourself.”
My entire body resists his words. He’s known me for a week, and I’ve known myself my whole life. I need the sea.
“Is this really what you want?”
A pathetic noise rises through me, and I nod, struggling. The night shadows dim his sorrow, but I can still see it, pinching in his brows and tucking down his lips. He releases my wrist.
The water accepts me. It cradles me like a long-lost child, caressing my scales and seeping into my soul. It feels blissful, perfect.
Then it begins to strangle.
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How To Write A Captivating Opening Sentence
“We will be looking at the very beginning portion of some stories and explore different techniques in which writers, knowingly or unknowingly, made their opening line command their reader’s attention.”
