Posted in City of Wells and Stars, Stories, tagged Adventure, Books, Chastity, Goddess, Myth, Religion, Romance, Short Stories, Stories, Virtue, Writers, Writing on February 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
People noticed as the four friends became regular in one another’s company, and the Lower Salon Gaurds took every opportunity to stare suspiciously at their tightly-wrapped clothing for any tell-tale swellings of flesh.
Cyrulla was becoming almost ungovernably irritable at home, but took care to hide the fact from Hugo, who was giddy. Maerion felt that [...]
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Posted in City of Wells and Stars, Stories, tagged Books, Chastity, Goddess, Love, Myth, Religion, Romance, Short Stories, Story, Virtue, Writers, Writing on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Cyrulla murmured “What is it, Maerion?”
Maerion answered as quietly: “I felt that I saw into the future, and knew that none of us would ever be this happy again.”
The boy raised his thoughtful eyes to the horizon outside the open door, but the gazes of Cyrulla and Perspice flew to the Balcony in the Upper Salon where [...]
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Posted in City of Wells and Stars, Writing, tagged Art, Books, Film, Form, Genre, Goddess, Guidelines, Humor, Humour, Life, Literature, Marketing, Mass Marketing, Movies, Myth, Novels, Publishers, Publishing, Purity, Religion, Rules, Screenwriters, Screenwriting, Short Stories, Writers on January 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Enough.
I’m through with these silly rules.
I can’t help but notice that a Short Story or Novel is composed entirely of words. I must therefore conclude that a story-writer’s methods ought not to be polluted by the methods of Screenwriters.
Admit it, friends. “Showing” vs. “Telling” has very little to do with good writing as millenia of authorship demonstrate. With which you [...]
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