What if you could travel back in time and live your life over again starting from the point you went back to? Would you do it?
Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Time Travel Writing Prompts
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Tag: Agatha Christie
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Kentuckiana Authors, Mystery, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
Sanctuary Road – a Review
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Dayna’s musician husband has left her for another woman, one who is pregnant with his child. While waiting for her divorce to be finalized, she returns home to the small town of Cedarwood, Kentucky, leaving behind the hustle and bustle of New York City. But will her life in Cedarwood be any less stressful? Her…
Fiction Writing
The Power of Imagination
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What is imagination? It is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. It is the ability of the mind to be creative. Can you imagine how boring life would be if not for the imagination? The Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books…
Book Reviews, Dark Fiction, Fiction Writing, Mystery, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
The Coven Murders (The Inspector Sheehan Mysteries, Book 3) – a Review
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The story opens on the dark night of July 31, 1995. That night is dark in more ways than one. A ritualistic human sacrifice is being made. Oh, and the woman being sacrificed is pregnant. Then the story skips ahead to twenty-one years later. Has the sacrifice been forgotten? What about the child she was…
Fiction Writing, Writing
Dealing with Writer’s Block
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The dictionary defines writer’s block as a usually temporary psychological inability to begin or continue work on a piece of writing. Scary thought, huh? Not being able to write can shatter a writer’s ego and become a nightmare. Is writer’s block all in your head or is it real? Not everyone believes that writer’s block…
Book Reviews, Horror, Short Stories/Novellas, Suspense/Thrillers
Nibble Nibble Crunch – a Review
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How fond of snowmen are you? Do you have fond memories of playing in the snow, throwing snowballs, and making snowmen? Warning: Once you read this short story, you might not like snowmen so much. You might never want to see one again. It is possible that you could develop a phobia of snowmen. This…
Fiction Writing, Poisons
The Classic Poison Strychnine
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Arsenic, cyanide, and strychnine are the classic poisons. The seemingly innocent little old ladies in Arsenic and Old Lace, one of my favorite movies, used these three poisons in their deadly elderberry wine. One gallon of this toxic wine contained one teaspoon of arsenic, half a teaspoon of strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide. Unsuspecting…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Horror, Mystery, Suspense/Thrillers
Miss Polly had a Dolly (Emma Frost Book 2) – a Review
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Miss Polly had a dolly, but instead of a real dolly, it was her daughter, Nina, that she protected from everyone and everything. Instead of being allowed to play with other children and get dirty, she was paraded around to show off how beautiful she was. Then she finally gets to talk to a boy,…
Book Reviews, Dark Fiction, Fiction Writing, Horror, Mystery, Suspense/Thrillers
Itsy Bitsy Spider: Emma Frost #1 – a Review
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Murder takes place in a small Denmark town, one where the last murder took place twenty-five years ago. This time, there’s not just one murder. But there is a horrific crime that was committed many years ago on this scenic little island that no one talks about. 1977 – Astrid has been locked in a…
Fiction Writing, Mystery, Reading, Writing
Master the Art of Mystery Writing with These Seven Tips
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What makes a mystery great? I grew up reading mysteries by Agatha Christie; I own each one she wrote. What about them appealed to me and millions of other readers? How does one write a great mystery? I don’t write mysteries, but I know what I like to read. Below I have listed things that,…
