Will you dress up like Frankenstein on Frankenstein Friday? Are you brave enough to clean your refrigerator on Haunted Refrigerator Night? How many caramel apples will you eat on National Caramel Apple Day? Will you drive people crazy with your knock-knock jokes on National Knock-Knock Jokes Day? One of your characters could start a new…
Category: Fiction Writing
Fiction Writing, Halloween Articles, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Haunted Libraries in the U.S.A.
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• •Does the ghost of a librarian that just couldn’t bear to be parted from her books frequent the library in your hometown? Does she reside there peacefully unless disturbed? Does she react like the ghost librarian from Ghostbusters if you try to talk to her? Or is she more like the ghost librarian at the…
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts
Bio-Chemical Electrical Discharge – Guest Post by Tegon Maus
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• •Are you a SLIder? Do you have H.V.S.? In my Sci-Fi series, The Eve Project, Ben Harris is and does. He destroys any unshielded electronics, sets fire to ATMs, coffee machines, and unwittingly sends devastating arcs of electricity to anything metal. He suffers from B.C.E.D. He has spent his entire life trying to hide his…
Book Reviews, Fantasy, Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Science Fiction, Words
Machines of the Little People – a Review
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• •Fiction Writing, Guest Posts, Publishing
Writing Religious Fiction: How Far is Too Far? – Guest Post by Denver Batiste
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• •When you think of religious fiction, what authors come to mind? The obvious, of course, are the most famous: Dan Brown. Lynn Austin. Ted Dekker. Anne Rice has even delved into the subject. Over the past decade, religious fiction has become more popular and has steered the literary world into a territory that was seldom…
Book Reviews, Fantasy, Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
The Vitandi – a Review
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• •I was sure I had read every twist possible on the vampire story, but I was wrong. The Vitandi adds another unique and upsetting twist to the vast collection of vampire stories out there. Remember the twelve apostles from the Bible? The apostles and Christ are a huge part of this book. The author does…
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts
Chai, Zombies, and Some Wonderings – Guest Post by Elizabeth Massie
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• •Several afternoons a week, I sit at our local coffee shop, sipping a chai, writing, knitting, and watching customers come and go. Though I’m not a stalker or psycho (okay, shut up), I can’t help but eavesdrop on other customers’ conversations if they are close enough and loud enough, because hey, they’re close enough and…
Author Interviews, Fiction Writing
Elizabeth Massie Interview – Inspiration, Characters, and Zombies
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• •Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Horror, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words, Zombie Fiction
Desper Hollow -a Review
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• •A zombie’s only purpose is to kill and eat. They don’t have feelings. They don’t think. In Desper Hollow, Elizabeth Massie has taken the ever-evolving zombie to a new level of existence. Something evil is going on in Desper Hollow, Virginia. This is a place to be avoided, a place people shy away from visiting. Granny…
Fiction Writing, Halloween Articles, Phobias, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Phobias Associated with Halloween
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• •For Halloween, authors take advantage of things that scare people. Some write stories that will keep you awake at night; others write stories that scare you for the moment. Any phobia would be appropriate in a Halloween story, but the following ones are more closely associated with this spooky time of year. Write your own…