April 2011
“Normally seven minutes of another person’s company was enough to give her a...”
– Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
“Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or...”
– Margaret Atwood (via writingadvice)
writing advice: Tension Makes Your Story... →
writingadvice:
By Kelsey Ruger
If you understand how to apply story structure, the next step is to build the action and sequence of events in your story. Adding conflict of tension is the best way to build action and keep things interesting. Tension is the force that moves us to change. Tension is…
“Your worth isn’t based on what others think about you, but solely on how much...”
– Daryll Millave (via picsandquotes)
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life...”
– ~Erma Bombeck (via fruitheart)
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Assemblage of Lies and Alibis: 001. Waiting Hands →
This is something that I wrote:
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Ever since that day, I don’t wear watches anymore. It seemed the practical thing to do, wearing one would have driven me insane. Staring as the seconds tick by without you in sight, my eyes frantically deciding whether to speed time up or slow it down. Speed it up so that…
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supergluemyheart:
The sun rises. The first thing I see is your smile. Slowly spreading from your lips to the first light in your eyes.
The sun high in the middle of the sky. Bright laughter echoes and bounces off walls, crystal clinking sound drowns my ears.
The sun sets. I return to an empty house in the city you never lived. You left everything untouched but my heart.
