What do you see when you look at a picture of a lake? Do you just see a lake? Or does your imagination go wild as you look deeper? When you look at any picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see more? Maybe you can…
Category: Fiction Writing
Book Reviews, Humor, New Words Learned, Words
The Toilet’s Overflowing and the Dog is Wearing My Underwear – a Review
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• •Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Science Fiction, Words
Reader (Daughter of Time, Book 1) – a Review
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• •Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Horror
Psychological Horror vs. Supernatural Horror
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• •Horror comes in many forms. It can come through a scream heard on a dark night. It can come in eyes wide with terror when something wrong is spotted or felt. Hauntings, sadistic killers, monsters, dragons, a whisper, fear of the unknown, fear of anything, and blood, lots of blood— at least one of these…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Mystery, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
The Widow – a Review
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• •How well do you know the person you married? Are there no secrets between you? Or are there pieces of your spouse’s life you know nothing about? Jean Taylor’s husband, Glen, is suspected of kidnapping and possibly killing a little girl who was taken from her yard, but a jury has said he is innocent.…
Confusing Words, Fiction Writing, Words
Confusing Words from Dine to Disinterested
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• •Would you go out to diner or dinner? Would you take a dinghy or a dingy out on the lake? When you find facts that prove something is wrong, do you disprove or disapprove it? Are you disinterested or uninterested when you have absolutely no interest in something? dine, dyne When you dine, you eat. Jeremy…
Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Tree Picture Writing Prompts
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• •Fiction Writing, Phobias, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Cynophobia and Other Animal Phobias
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• •I am surrounded by animals. They make my life so enjoyable that I cannot imagine living without them. There are people, though, who live their life as far away as they can from certain animals. For some reason, animal phobias tend to be more common in females than in males. Those suffering from cynophobia have an irrational…
Fiction Writing, Redundant Expressions, Words
Redundant Expressions from Circle Around to Compete with Each Other
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• •Have you ever said that you would like to see something completely destroyed? Or maybe you have said that you would be in close proximity to someone or something. Possibly you have said that you need to circle around the block. If so, did you realize that you were using redundant expressions? A pleonasm, or…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Horror, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
Project Apex – a Review
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• •Imagine healing instantly from any wound you receive. Imagine not needing food or sleep. Imagine being unstoppable. Would being like this change you at all? In 1999 in Africa, Richard Draven is on a quest. He is on a search for a species of monkey rumored to have given superior health and healing powers to…