Writing Challenges
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Next month begins a new writing challenge: the National Novel Writing Month 50,000-words in 30 days challenge!
fiction
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Why Fiction
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A close friend of mine asked me the other day why I “waste so much time” with fiction.
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Stories and Bias
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I think that a somewhat anonymous literature anthology would be an interesting experiment.
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What do you get out of film
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The biggest reason I enjoy fiction is for the social commentary of the stories.
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Things Found in the Forest – Part 1
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Dawn came too early for Chris. He rolled over in the tent and struggled to pull the sleeping bag over his eyes, hoping to delay the inevitable for a few more minutes. Morning meant everyone would be up, alert, and wanting to do something when all Chris wanted to do was go home. It could
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Coffee Shop – Part 1
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Marcy It was a bright, sunny, beautiful day outside, and Marcy was just glad to be alive. She woke up, stretched, and poked at the cat through the bed sheets with her feet. He gave her an evil, half asleep glare and curled up again, just out of reach of her toes. Marcy giggled a
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Bread Run
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Prompt: Your character goes to the grocery store, and on the way there meets someone/thing unexpected, which requests something that the character cannot give it. Hilarity ensues. Story: Two in the morning and I still couldn’t get to sleep. I sat up slightly and tried plumping my pillow for the hundredth time. It looked so
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A Drop in a Bucket
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I The Earth trembled as if burdened by a sudden mass too large to be held upon its shoulders. A great trumpeting sounded forth from the forest midst as balls of fire were slung away from the tree line to collide against the city walls, setting them ablaze and blinding the archers who defended them.
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Advent of Evil – Part 10 of 10
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Richard was furious. Alan had lied to him. The next time he saw Alan, he knew he’d kill him. Wait. Richard stopped and analyzed that last thought. It wasn’t his. IT was roaming more freely now, pulling against ITs weakening chains and trying to assert control. Richard’s momentary lapse into anger gave IT just what
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Advent of Evil – Part 9 of 10
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Richard’s mind was in turmoil. He wanted to find Cari to kill her for what she’d done to his wife. John wanted to find her to be reunited with his lover. IT wanted to find ITs master and share the fruits of ITs labor. That was the hardest part for Richard to reconcile. He knew