For some reason, this week’s prompt from Friday Fictioneers generated a dark feeling for me. Here’s where it took me. The boy crawled out of the storm cellar and scrambled across the rubble. The full moon deepened the shadows, making threatening monsters out of empty eyed wall sections and free standing chimneys. The air still reeked of […]
Reading to Write
My Path to Becoming an Author
Author: Melody Pearson
There must be as many ways to fight writer’s block as there are writers. Since I’d never really experienced it before, I’ve been searching for my way. Some ‘experts’ say the first thing is to schedule writing the same as you do any other kind of job. Sit down at the same time, in the […]
Every week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields leads a bevy of writers on a merry trail. She posts a picture for our inspiration and challenges us to expand upon it with only 100 words. I, usually, take a day or so to settle on an idea. Then I start writing. The first draft is always much too long, […]