Story starters are a twitter meme were writers share first liners in the hope of helping fellow writers – write! 1) It seemed at first glance to be a case of boy meets girl but what with the time travelling, memory loss and sex changes it was nothing so simple 2) If there was one […]
Now we have truly left the naughties behind it is time to look forward. I love flash fiction writing but hope to be compiling a collection at some point – basically once I get a hundred stories on here 🙂 I am planing on doing the same with my poetry blog Turquoise Monster too 🙂 […]
Merry Christmas to all the Flashers out there! Last year I wrote quiet a few Christmassy stories but not this year – maybe at some point in the future I will do a seasonal or snowy collection or something – until then I shall just keep writing on 😉 (and yes that is sort of […]
I am part of an online community called Friday Flash – it started off as a twitter thing and grew from there. Each week on Friday we post links to our pieces of flash fiction, we add them to the collector and we read each others works (sometimes when time permits!). There is now a […]
I love writing challenges – it is kind of why I ended up with the monster blogs. The first week of May is a picture book writing challenge – the idea is that you write the script of a picture book, one a day – in the first week of May 🙂 So that is […]
Guttering wind had stolen her candle light only moments before; Bella stood hoping like hell that dawn was not far off. There were skittering noises in the distance but the worst thing she could do was run. She calmed her ragged breath. The Namrok had been known to attack those who maintained stillness but had […]
Selorian Raising up her hair to fasten the necklace, Trent discovered a zipper pull just inside her hair line on the back of her neck. #storystarters Selorian Ripples of time crashed in, trapping him in a turbulent inner storm born from his own past mistakes. #storystarters jessrosenbooks “Have a care, dear,” Grams said, patting my […]
Selorian “Go ahead and be the heroe. I’ll be remembered for the bad I did long after the good you did is forgotten.” #storystarters Selorian He had finally accepted the duality within him. The knowledge of what he was capable of was still crippling at times. #storystarters thefourpartland The sword flickered in the early morning […]
Selorian: The swamps were filled with gators, poisonous snakes , and other dangers. None of those were what worried him. #storystarters The swamps were filled with gators, poisonous snakes, and other dangers. None of those were what worried him. After all Jeramy had grown up in these swamps, he knew the calls of the animals […]
This story is from a #storystarters by Selorian DOOMSDAY The dust settled on the Google Wars of 2012 on December 21st & the internet juggernaut’s victory led to the Mayan doomsday – well sort off anyway. China, incensed at Google, decided to put all their resources into DOS attacks taking out the economic hub of […]