Story Challenges

Marvin (1938 -2020) and Theobald (1929-2017) hover, their backs appearing to rest against their tombstones in the dark of a starlit night.  Marvin sits rather

Let’s say that the above series (dialogue, characters, setting, action) is today’s plan for beginning a scene you want to write. Let’s say the scene

So often writers have a yearning for the big time. We want to sell thousands of books a year or be on the New York

The one tiny window was glued shut with many gummy layers of paint.  It had never been opened as far as Ramon knew.  Problem was,

I invite you to predict the future of America.  If ever there was a time for writers to write, this is it.  Give it some

~~Back in the 1960s, a female could get kicked out of school for coming in late to the dorm or for being caught in a

Gladys parked her new Super Streamer floating recliner in front of the reconstructed twenty-first century reconstruction of a 1900 store front. The full display windows

Mandy was everything her mother had hoped for in daughter. Mandy grew up with long blond curls and strikingly blue eyes. As a preteen, she

When writing fiction, the writer is required to carve out the path forward. You have to deal with the fact that if Character X stops

Bev sat on the metal lawn chair she kept on her front porch, bouncing a bit, idly swatting mosquitoes who were attracted to her fat