Sarah Spradlin

*pauses on the edge* “Breathe deep, Breathe deep.” JUMPS! *Right I’m in. Now let’s go see if I can write something. 😀
Thank you @kate-flournoy.
but the successful writers are the disciplined ones
There is a line in a movie (which @rolena-hatfield should know) which says “If honesty offends me, than I am in most need of it.” Don’t ever stop tells…[Read more]

Well… dive in. 😉

What, that’s not helpful?!? Whazza mazza wis you @bluejay?!?

But really, my best trick is just to start going. Don’t think about how terrible your writing is— don’t think about how awfully your prose is flowing. Just write and write and write until you’re ‘in the zone’. You can always go back and fix the flow later if you…[Read more]

Um… well… stop the bad guys, stop the bad guys, and… stop the bad guys. 😛 They all pretty much boil down to the same thing.

And I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, @gretald.

Let me explain. Though the story goal can certainly be very cool and epic and all that, it’s not the goal that makes the story interesting. It’s the…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy. Help. Ok, so I’ve kinda overcome writer’s block. I can think of lots of good ideas, but I can’t get the words to flow. Any suggestions?

Come on @everyone. Don’t stop now. 😀

“Oh,” I said. I hadn’t meant to hurt him. “Well, we can be good friends now, right?”
He nods and looks at me.
“Um, anything else I should know?” My head was hurting and I rub my temples.
“Oh boy,” said Gavin. “You really have forgotten everything. Perhaps I had better come in and explain it to you so you understand what is going on.”
“Sure,” I…[Read more]

“Oh,” I said. I hadn’t meant to hurt him. “Well, we can be good friends now, right?”
He nods and looks at me.
“Um, anything else I should know?” My head was hurting and I rub my temples.
“Oh boy,” said Gavin. “You really have forgotten everything. Perhaps I had better come in and explain it to you so you understand what is going on.”
“Sure,” I…[Read more]

@overcomer I like this one definitely out of your lot of titles. “Marks of a Typewriter.” But “Dust and Ink” is good too. 🙂

@overcomer I like this one definitely out your lot of titles. Marks of a Typewriter. But Dust and Ink is good too. 🙂

The conflict is in reaching the goal, not the goal itself.

@kate-flournoy, yeah, that’s what I was trying to say, but you said it better. 😉 😛
Yes, character conflict is quite interesting. In the novel I’m working on with my sister (@ingridrd), we use some of that (MC and a snobby girl [aka Sheryn Slade] are always at each other’s throats).…[Read more]

“This is really weird, introducing myself to you. Okay,” he sucks in a deep breath. “I’m Gavin Frensky.”
Gavin Frensky. The name sounds familiar…like someone I dreamed about but whom I didn’t know personally. I stare at Gavin, unable to tear my gaze away. “How old are you, Gavin?”
“I’m 17.”
Seventeen. For some reason, seventeen doesn’t seem…[Read more]

Hello, @gretald! I found this volcano on here just waiting to happen… awesome topic! One of my favorite tactics for conflict is sparring between characters. Yeah, we have the overall conflict (which is the story-goal) but it really helps move things along if you have a lot of heated exchanges between the characters on a scene to scene basis. If…[Read more]

@daeus , thank you, I’m glad you pointed that out. In my poem, the second and last stanzas originally had “and” instead of “then” but I changed it based on a suggestion from my Editor in Chief. (My mom:)

They looked like this:

Letter and Letter
Line by Line,
White paper is marred
By a black ink design.

and

But Letter and Letter
Line by Line,…[Read more]