It’s all typed up. You’ve gone through this a least a hundred times before. The query letter, the pitch, similar books, your bio. By now you’ve got them all saved on a word document, so it’s just a quick copy and paste with a few edits here and there to personalize it for every agent.Continue reading “The Anxiety in the Query”
Category Archives: Creative Writing
Writing Prompt: An Alien Disguised Among Humans
Include the following in your story: Aurora Borealis, paint brush, corn field, cluster, lineup, overlook, suspect, bridge, dome, dash. “Dongion to Mothership. Repeat. Dongion to Mothership.” “This is Mothership. You are due for a report Dongion.” A thin smile curled upon Dongion’s lips when the voice of his superior came across the communicator in hisContinue reading “Writing Prompt: An Alien Disguised Among Humans”
Robbed
She can’t see her beauty.Robbed from her eyes like a thief in the night.She looks in the mirror and sees only her flaws.What confidence she had is gone.Her smile graces her lips no more.What beauty is there in a broken heart? In the soul, feeling unwanted. No one would turn their eye to her invisibleContinue reading “Robbed”
Writing Prompt: A Fishing Trip
Include the following in your story: jig, unsightly, wait, beam, shoulder, grey, reminder, mouth, Canada, river. Nothing beats the clean, serine, tranquility of the wilderness. You find some time to get away, do some research, and suddenly you’re floating down a river in Canada with a fishing pole in hand. There’s nothing unsightly about thisContinue reading “Writing Prompt: A Fishing Trip”
Winter Magic
Step outside and the frosty air grips your skin like a coat. You take a deep breath in surprise and the cold infiltrates your lungs and causes you to shiver. You decide to run back inside to grab another coat and hat before heading out the door. The morning is quiet, the world still asleep.Continue reading “Winter Magic”
Writing Prompt: Unsolved Mystery
Include the following in your story: murder, green, agreement, traditional, carpenter, snake, sugar, kidney, congress, jam. It was supposed to be a traditional murder case. Open and shut. Textbook worthy. Yet, the carpenter’s home was a total mess when I walked in. Flies buzzed everywhere, constantly zipping past your head, and even running right intoContinue reading “Writing Prompt: Unsolved Mystery”
Writing Prompt: Snakes
Interesting or creepy? Why? I love snakes! I think they’re pretty fascinating. Their scales are smooth and cool to the touch. They have a variety of different colors and patterns. Their movement is elegant and when provoked, they can be quite vicious. I especially love snakes with fangs because of how intimidating and fierce theyContinue reading “Writing Prompt: Snakes”
Swamped
Swamped. A marsh thick with swirling fog overhead, weighing down rest and trailing weary.Wet. The water, the muck, and the bog that tears and pulls at your feet.Tall rooted trees extend above, green and luscious casting shadows upon you. Where is the light that needs to shine through? Duty. A job to be done, musclesContinue reading “Swamped”
Writer’s Dominion
To command a pen, to glide on a page.What freedom there is that you can control.The will of the wind where it would,The current of a stream, refreshing, refined.A power to command kingdoms,Your will is the law. A written page forever spoken,Lies rebel fire or flooding rain.The ash of death or washing away of theContinue reading “Writer’s Dominion”
The Best
I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was.Training, running, fighting, trying, I’ll beat my way to the top.No one can stop me, no one can harm me.I’ll be the best there ever was,I’ll take first place, you’ll see, it’ll be easy. Battle me all you want,I’ll win every time.Sweet, sweet, sweet victory,Continue reading “The Best”
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