Sarah Spradlin

@kate-flournoy NaNo is pretty much like a writing exercise in so many words. It is a contest in its own right and if you do complete the 50k in one month you do get an award and a print out and it keeps a record of it.
It is not a curriculum, though you could use it as a writing tool/challenge.

It got started when a small group of guys came up…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy I enjoyed reading this!
One thing though; the beginning ‘ands’ of each line in this are distracting and kind of…make it bland. Some of them are necessary, but not quite that many. What I suggest is taking it through another round of revision and taking out the ‘ands’ one sentence at a time. Read it out loud and see how it sounds.…[Read more]

You know you’re a writer when you start writing your novel in your head before you go to sleep.

Yeah…

Hey, I just realized we don’t really have an emotional hook thus far. We’re forced to remember without any help what Walter went through that made him this way…

Hm. What if he wears a locket that had been his mother’s around his neck, or maybe a piece of lace that had belonged to her in his pocket, and takes it out from time to time…[Read more]

Sounds like fun. 😉

We live in the country, but once we were were filming a fantasy movie so we were all dressed up. We had to walk down the road to reach the location we were filming at and passed our neighbor’s house where a party was going on. The looks we got were very amusing. 😉

I do that all the time, Hope. 😀

You know your a writer when your favorite part about driving is looking at the faces in the other cars and trying to catch a glimpse of their story.

Yes! And when one of your hobbies is looking up into the semis as they past to see who’s driving them. 😉

Good! Please do.

YES! I do that ALL THE TIME.

I know where you can find some words. There’s this really cool book I’ve read, and it’s really helpful when it comes to words.

It’s called the dictionary. 😛

You know you’re a writer when your own villains give you nightmares.

No, I haven’t. 😀

He looks like quite an interesting villain though.

Loki of Asgard…you haven’t seen any of the avenger movies? 😉

Hmm, Loki of Asgard…you haven’t seen any of the avenger movies?

Who on earth is that? 😛

Ooo, that’s a cool idea. And for and example of a mesmerizing villain who everyone likes, how about this character?

Ooo, that’s a cool idea. And for and example of a mesmerizing villain who everyone likes, how about this character?

Ooo, that’s a cool idea. And for and example of a mesmerizing villain who everyone likes, how about this character?

Yes! That’s what we’ve got going here. In the first few posts we have two friends, Walter and Alex.
Walter’s family was killed by terrorists, and he suspected Alex of conspiring with the terrorists to that end. So he went and became a villain (I make it sound so easy, don’t I?) and then he killed Alex’s family. The difference is, Alex didn’t…[Read more]