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Off the Wall Writing Prompts #1

Looking for a bit of inspiration to kick start your week?Blocked? Written yourself into a corner?

We’ve all been there.Let’s not forget though writing is–should be–fun. Sometimes we all need a bit of a reminder.

Writing prompts are just one the things that work wonders to get us out of that creative funk. Why not give one or more of the prompts below a try?

You just might enjoy it.

#1 – Write a piece of flash fiction including all of the following three elements:


a red-eyed rabbit


a milk carton


petr...

Who Can Relate?

That Defining Moment

When I was twelve, I lived in a town on the outskirts of Ocho Rios, Jamaica. One day I told a friend about a book that I was reading. I forget what that story was was about, but I thought that it was awful and I told her as much. She said that if I knew so much about stories I should write them myself.

I was electrified. Not even once had it occurred to me before, the notion that I could put pen to paper. It’s strange that a moment so innocuous could inspire a lifelong purs...

CANNY STORY Webserial Showcase

There’s a plethora of great web-serialized stories out there. CANNY STORYwas created to highlight the most intriguing web serials that I’ve come across. Youmighthear from readers and sometimes, from the writers themselves.

Looking for something great to read?

I want to show you a world of great writing that you probably never even knew existed. Iwant to introduce you to wonderful stories that you might not be able to find in a bookstore. You don’t even have to go that far. You might just need...

Serial SitRep #1

With three-four serial stories running at a time, I figured it would be nice to give a progress report on each story, once in a while.

BLOOD BINDS – In Progress

Genre: Fantasy, Adventure

Hoping to get intel on the blood grudge, Hel and Charls pay a visit to Jubal, the possession specialist but they’re in for an ugly surprise.

READ HERE | READ at WATTPAD

Coming Soon: Chapter 11 – “Prodigal Son”

STARCHASER – In Progress

Genre: Space Opera

Laila ventures into Bentokal’s forbidden Wild and into great per...

New Blog Address, Email Snafu & More

New Blog Address

Please update your bookmarks: my blog’s url has been changed to www.genrelove.wordpress.com.You can also get to this site using the url www.tonyarmoore.com.

Email Snafu

It recently came to my attention that emails sent via the Contact Me page have been going to the wrong email inbox. If you are waiting on a response from me—especially about guest-posting here—I believe I’ve recovered the emails that escaped my notice before, but if you don’t receive any communications from me in...

Changes with Sally Ember, Ed.D

Today, I have aguest spot on the live show “Changes with Sally Ember, Ed.D & Guests.” Join us today, 9/17/2014 10am-11am EST.

In addition to her published short stories, poetry, blogs, articles and critiques, Sally Ember, Ed.D is a produced playwright (Crystal Dreams, 1983) and nonfiction co-author (Acting Out: The Workbook, 1996).

We” be talking about the speculative fiction genres, inspiration and the art of writing.

You can watch the visit the event pageon Google+ to join the Hangout or visit...

FlashFic: Harlequin

A clock-work doll sits atop a wobbly mountain of rubble. He has dry, empty sockets where his eyes should be. His smile is wide and full of teeth. A fat tear hangs in suspended animation, mid-dribble down one dirty cheek. The aging sun is going down on the distant horizon, while casting its purple gaze across the broken remains of a barren metropolis. There’s a tentative click, then the sound of slowly grinding gears.

A sharp melody explodes into the air–a relentless, one-man merry-go-round of...

Blood Binds 10

– Oil in Wormwood –

“Cheap trick. Not Jubal’s style, at all.” Charls mused. “Hel, we’re shifting again. Can you handle it?

This time she eyed him starkly. “You do realize I’m not as fragile as the average human, right?

She’d be lying though, if she tried to say teleporting like that didn’t take its toll. Heavy magic without anything to leverage it against was incredibly taxing, even on the one being carried. This time, she found herself doubling over on a cobbled floor, gasping to catch her brea...

Blood Binds #9

– Jubal–

“What’s wrong Charls? You look like you ate something that doesn’t agree with you.”

Nearly an hour’s trek from the misty edge of the forest by the sea, Hel and Charls finally arrived at the village at the foot of the mountain where Charls’ contact resided. The reclusive sorcerer, Jubal was an old friend who didn’t mind sharing information from time to time, for a price. If there was any useful news of the blood grudge to be found, he’d likely caught wind of it already.

Bazaars were nois...

Anansi Story

A while ago, I shared one of my flash fiction pieces titled “Witch and Spider.” I forgot to include a bit of background regarding that particular “earthbound deity” which does add some significance to the origin of the story’s concept.

I had wanted to write science fiction story that blended subgenres. Somehow, what I came up with was a mashup of dystopia, steampunk and ancient mythology. Dystopia being Earth as an all but forgotten, backwater “has been” hub of civilization. Steampunk: gasligh...