It’s November 22 and after today, NaNoWriMo participants have just eight days to hit the 50,000 word mark before the 2011 competition comes to a close. Judging by the word counts I’ve seen on Twitter, a lot of people are cracking along nicely. Now, I posted a while back about how I was intending to […]
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Photo Prompt 60
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
Friday Flash – Situation Vacant
Public Domain Characters
I came across this rather fascinating post over on Fuel Your Writing about using public domain characters in your work. These are characters whose copyright has passed into the public domain, and are moreorless “up for grabs”. Think of the novels of Jasper Fforde, or the retold fairytales that Gregory Maguire made popular (and whose […]
Photo Prompt 59
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
Friday Flash – Remembrance
“Gran? Gran, are you up here?” Sara poked her head around the door. “Yes, dear. By the window.” Sara pushed the door open and stepped into the attic. Dust motes swirled in the pale sunlight cutting across the floor from the small window in the sloped roof. Her grandmother sat hunched in a battered old […]
