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October 17, 2018
How to Study Fiction, Part 14: Scenes, Part 6. Final Endings.
This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. You may also want to check out the series on pacing, here, which I’m eventually going to fold into this series […]
Tales of the Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 17
Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: The smell of sunscreen … THAT WORD FOR WHEN YOU KNOW BUT YOU CAN’T PROVE […]
October 16, 2018
Tales of the Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 16
Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Bonfires … BONFIRES …A bronze plate etched with patterns, the kind of big metal platter […]
October 15, 2018
Tales of the Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 15
Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Alone time … EXTROVERT She was out in her driveway again, in the dark, at […]
October 14, 2018
Tales of the Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 14
Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Cute journals … THE JOURNAL Tanya received a journal for her twelfth birthday from her […]
October 13, 2018
Tales of the Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 13
Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Gift cards … THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS He had been drifting away from people lately: […]
October 12, 2018
Tales of the Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 12
Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Plane tickets … L’APPEL DU VIDE If you had two free one-way plane tickets to […]
October 11, 2018
Tales of the Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 11
Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Arts and crafts … THE FOURTH WISH Tamra Triplett was thinking about what would happen […]
October 10, 2018
How to Study Fiction, Part 13: Scenes, Part 5. Endings.
I would like to note that the real reason I have this complicated numbering scheme is so I don’t forget what the heck I’m doing! This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of […]
Tales of the Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 10
Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Dressing up really fancy for not fancy dinners … TEA PARTY We didn’t always dress […]
