Stories tagged with "details"

  • Further Hints for Beginning Writers Inspired by text

    FOCUS

    Take one tiny thing in your story and zoom in on it. Make your reader really familiar with it.

    If it’s an object, tel…

  • Just Great Inspired by text

    Dad came home, slamming the garage door so hard that the entire house shook.

    “Harvey, in the kitchen. Now.”

    “Shit.” I trudg…

  • Whodunnit? [Golden Silence Challenge] Inspired by text

    Pacing in front of the people involved always helps.

    First, I walk by the cook. A rotund lady, well into her fifties. Her br…

  • Losing Him

    We sat close on his bed. I could smell his colonge and it was takng all my strengeth not to just lean over and kiss him. I wa…

  • The Adjective Challenge!

    I passed up the opportunity for a challenge at my last milestone, issuing a writing prompt instead. (see profile)

    But I have…

  • Une impression sur ma peau Inspired by text

    I could write down all the details of that night, how his kisses burned an imprint on my skin that I can still feel to this d…

  • Marina (5) Inspired by text

    Finally it was the concern in her face that unhinged him. That unfettered the rage and pent-up emotions he carried inside. Al…