Haiku #5: Start Again

watch the sand slip by try to catch it, uselessly turn the hourglass ~ ~ ~ No matter how we try, we can't stop time.  Instead of looking back hopelessly at time that is already spent, we can turn the hourglass and look forward to the future. ⏳ Photo by EDUIN on Pixabay.  Link: https://pixabay.com/en/time-clock-hourglass-hour-1817725/

Character Sketches: Simple Ways to Get to Know Your Characters Inside & Out | Plotober 2018

Dear Plotters, Now that we've talked in-depth about finding the story we want to tell, using emotional impact, and working in hidden twists, let's switch gears and talk about characters. Ooh, characters.  This is my favorite part of plotting.  To be precise, I can't separate characters from plot; one does not exist without the other.  …

Just Write!

It feels like forever since I posted. I mean posted posted, not reblogged something (though that's good too). I know this isn't true, that it wasn't actually forever--after all, my Published Posts page on my dashboard informs me that my last (actual) post was the last Halloween Extravaganza! post at the end of October almost exactly a year ago. And a year isn't that long, considering. Not in real life. But on the Interwebs, a year can be forever. Anyway, that's over now. It's time to start this blog up again--to start my creativity up again. And to help with that, I'll be following The Daily Posts's Writing 101 program. Somehow I missed it when it was going on (being not-active has that effect), so better late than never. Today's assignment is a 20-min free-write, published when finished, no worries, no strings attached (aside from the aforementioned time limit). Timer starts. . . now.