What crazy things has your cat done?
Book Reviews, Books for Young People, Children's Books, Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Max Goes To Town – a Review
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Fiction Writing, Writing
What Does Your Character Do When Talking or Thinking?
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Have you ever known anyone who when they talk just talk? They don’t gesticulate with their hands. Their eyes don’t roam around the room. They don’t pet their cat or dog. They don’t look through their mail. They just talk. They stare into your eyes and talk, their mind not going elsewhere. That’s just not normal under most circumstances, is it?
Fiction Writing, Words, Yes, There's a Word for That
Yes, There’s a Word for That: Kinclunk & Other Unusual Words
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What would you call the cry of a newborn child? What about the sound that is made when your car runs over a manhole cover? When you’re so hungry you could eat an elephant, what sound does your stomach make? Cachinnation is loud or hysterical laughter. It is when you laugh so hard that tears…
Fiction Writing, Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
If Your Character Believes She is a Cat
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New ideas for characters, all wrapped up and ready to be written about, present themselves when you read about strange things in the news. Never would I have thought about creating a character who believed she was a cat, at least not until I ran across this gem—The Slippery Slope Is Here: Woman Says She…
