Sunday, August 28, 2011

Character Needed

So here is the prompt from a magazine to which I subscribe - Writing prompt No. 9


A weekly writing exercise to get you started
By Heather Wright
Published: August 26, 2011

What is your character’s greatest fear? If your character doesn’t have one, create one and make sure that he has to face that fear at a critical time in your story. Think Indiana Jones and the snakes.

Heather Wright's work has been published in local and national publications and on the Web. Her column “Write Angles,” published in What If? Canada’s Creative Magazine for Teens, became the basis of her book, Writing Fiction: A Hands-On Guide for Teens.

500 words

Guess I have an assignment.



Friday, August 05, 2011

Old Photographs, New Memories

Old photographs of familiar scenes - just the way my son and I are spending the summer...thirty years later - friends on the beach.