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Today's the Day!
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Anthology Stories are due today! Get those final touches done on your story and send it to me by midnight, EST tonight so I can get it assigned to a Proof Team member! There are lots of burning questions... Did we break the 20 story barrier? Who participated? How many stories did they write? When will the stories go live? Which theme has more stories? Of course, I'm not going to answer any of them now You'll have to wait and anticipate!- 2 comments
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Great aunt Tilly thought an accidental glance at Mr. Peavy made her guilty of a dalliance.
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In storytelling, a dalliance—a brief, casual, or non-committal romantic or playful interlude—is rarely just an empty distraction. While it might seem like a detour from the main plot, authors and screenwriters use dalliances as powerful literary tools to reveal character, raise stakes, and control narrative pacing. Here is why dalliances are so important in storytelling, grouped by their narrative functions: Character Revelation and Growth: Exposing Flaws and Vulnerabilities: A -
Dalliance is a noun formed from the verb dally, which originates from Middle English around 1300, coming from the Anglo-French word dalier, meaning to chat, play, or act playfully, and is combined with the abstract noun suffix -ance, which comes from Latin -antia and -entia via Old French, used to form nouns of state or action. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest known use of the noun dalliance in English dates to around 1385, appearing in the writings of the poet Geo
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Just the facts: DALLIANCE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster DALLIANCE Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus A dalliance is a casual, brief, and non-serious romantic or sexual relationship (a fling), or a short-lived, trivial interest in an activity While not strictly modern street slang, it is often used in informal or literary contexts as a polite or slightly cheeky synonym for an affair or a passing obsession. Mean -
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In storytelling, perfidious—meaning untrustworthy, deceitful, or deliberately faithless—is a powerful narrative engine. It describes characters who actively violate a shared bond of trust, such as a friend, ally, or leader who turns traitor. The literary importance of perfidious elements can be grouped into several key narrative functions: Driving the Plot and Conflict: The Inciting Incident: A perfidious act often serves as the catalyst that kicks off the entire story. A s
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Perfidious comes from the Latin adjective perfidiosus (meaning treacherous or faithlessness), derived from perfidia (faithlessness) and perfidus (faithless). It combines the prefix per- (meaning "through" or, in this destructive sense, "to ill effect" / "away from the bad") with fides or fidem, meaning "faith," "trust," or "fidelity". Literally, it describes breaking faith or deceiving through trust. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the adjective perfidious was first used in E
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