It might have taken a bit, but the secret stories are going live today for readers to enjoy! What mysteries are being revealed, secrets are being shared, or forbidden truths are being uncovered? Well, you'll just have to read the stories to find out! Let's go over the name of the game, just in case we have a lot of newbies here... plus I have some extra fun twists to reveal!
Read, comment, and review the Forbidden Knowledge stories posted by our Secret Author. Wonder who wrote them..
Right, I know I should be working on the last chapter of Yankee (and the first few chapters of its sequel) but I've been distracted by work and other stuff. This has been sticking in my head too -- I guess I shouldn't ever say "I wish I could write like that, but I can't" since then my brain will nag at me until I do.
I think I'm calling this one By Design, but I'm not sure. It actually involves a lot of landscape architecture, though you'd not know it from this bit.
Anyway, this is on
I've got a houseful of sick people (including me, though not nearly as badly as everyone else) so I've been up weird hours and bored to death, though not actually competent to do anything useful like write. Trolling the shub-internet's a dodgy thing at the best of times, but at 3 AM, well...
Anyway, courtesy of the top site list, I found Wizard and Warrior. And some other stuff that was pretty darned good, but that's for another time.
It's a Michael Moorcock riff, and a damned good one.
This one's been kicking around for ages. Yes, before you mention it, I write far too much dialog -- with Yankee (and some of the other stories I've got in progress) you see the third draft. The first draft's generally 80% dialog, the second has all the intervening bits added, and the third's the cleaned up version after getting a twice-over from an editor.
This story, for reasons I never did figure out but accept anyway, takes place entirely inside an apartment. That's not to say that the ch
Well, OK, there's a remote possibility this one'll get touched, but I'm not betting on it. Again, it's got characters and a setting, but no plot. Pesky things, plots -- they go missing when you need them most. (Maybe I should check between the couch cushions)
The substitute
I know it's pretty normal for kids to have imaginary friends when they're little. Someone to play with and talk to when things get really bad, someone to confide those secrets that you just can't tell anyone e
Well it's the begining of pride in asbury park this weekend and so far it's been a blast!
I met Tara Sanchez tonight of RuPauls drag race and she was fierce/ her performance was spot on and she worked the crowd.
I hung out with my friends as well tonight and got a bit drunk off the cheap drinks lol (Kelly knows how to get me drunk and on a budget haha).
I made some new friends tonight, and some of them are staff at Paradise lol. It's nice walking into a bar where everyone knows you a
Well... This weekend was interesting... I got a lot of work done and managed to not go insane mainly because my mother was out of the state.
Unfortunatly I was met with tragedy. My netbook of 1.5 years died on Saturday with a watery fate. I was by my friends pool working on some things for work when my friend came by and knocked my netbook into the pool. Thankfully I'm an avid backer upper because I didn't loose anything vital, just a movie or two. So needless to say I was horrified and dove
Sacrifice is vital in storytelling because it raises the stakes, reveals a character's true nature, and makes the final victory feel truly earned. It transforms a simple plot into an emotional journey that audiences remember forever.
Why Sacrifice Matters:
Shows Real Value: When a character gives up something they love, want, or need, it proves to the reader how much the goal or other people matter.
Builds Tension: Knowing a character might lose what is dear to them creates urgen
The word sacrifice comes from the Latin words sacer (sacred) and facere (to make or do), literally meaning "to make sacred". The term passed into Old French as sacrifise during the 12th century with the same religious meaning of an offering made to a deity. It entered the English language in the late 13th century via Middle English to describe offering a life or object to a god. By the mid-14th century, it was also used as a noun for the actual thing offered.
According to the Oxford Eng
The end justifies the means?
eg:
The "means" always have an effect on the "end", so if the "end" is still worth it all things considered then yea, it's justified.
It really doesn't seem like that hard a question. Except maybe to those who think it's possible to be perfect in every decision they make.
Imagine a man has taken a classroom hostage and is killing kids one by one. You are a police sniper and can kill this man, saving the re
Just the facts:
SACRIFICE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
SACRIFICE Synonyms: 18 Similar Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
SACRIFICED Synonyms: 9 Similar Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
SELF-SACRIFICE Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
SELF-SACRIFICING Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
I've always been a late night person, even when working on the farm during the summer. We always took a longer break for dinner, which was usually one of the hottest times during the day, so I'd take a quick nap before eating and before we did the evening chores. I had to adjust how late I could stay up when I was working, but now that I'm retired, there's no limits to how late I stay up. Sometimes I don't go to sleep until 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning.
I'm glad to hear that Cia's still