Wednesday #writingprompt: Red magic #writing #NaNoWriMo — Lucent Dreaming (@lucentdreaming) November 15, 2017 I'm using Lucent Dreaming's writing prompt, because I ran out of ideas today! What is Red Magic? Red is associated with love, and anger... both closely related. Passionate feelings are given the color red. I wonder why that is? It could …
Active crows
I've always felt drawn to crows, but lately I've been feeling more and more interested in them. Something about their eyes and their behavior radiates mystery and intelligence to me. I think my next novel will involve crows in some way... But, it also will involve active characters. In editing my novel and my novella, …
Seasons
I wonder what it would have been like for an ancient people migrating from an equatorial region and seeing seasons for the first time. Winter would seem like the end of the world... The trees are dying all around, it's getting colder and even the sun hides beyond the horizon most of the time. The …
Start at the action
Now that I've got a bit of experience slush reading at our new magazine, I can say 'start at the action' with even more certainty than ever. When you're reading someone else's story, who you don't know, and have no preconceptions about, it is a lot easier to see faults. One fault being 'I have …
Picture book?
My novella has some pictures in it, and strange things done with the formatting. I wonder how that will go over or who will like and dislike it... I need to take one more picture to stick in there, and finish editing of course, then I will get to hear from some readers whether all …
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