Cynus

This was absolutely stunning. It makes me want to improve as a writer so much more, in the hopes that one day I'll be able to create something this beautiful. Thank you for posting it!

No, I've always been more inclined toward telekinesis as a superpower than flight. The person below me has written more words in the past two weeks than in the two months before that.

Crash to Noise Grabs to Grass

“This is it, huh?” Micah asked, looking around the alpine vista. “A small pond in the middle of nowhere?” They were standing on the edge of a small lake surrounded by pine trees. Micah looked around and was glad for the serenity of the place. It felt as if they had been without a break for a long time, and it almost seemed as if he could relax here. “It doesn’t matter where we go, precisely,” Nevala explained as he approached the water’s edge. He looked across the surface of the water, h

Beach to Skate Crate to Irate Edit: I now regret this decision. LOL

Beach to Skate Graze to Braze

A very merry day of existence to you.

A very merry day of existence to you.

There's a lot of great advice already listed above, but this point at the end of Graeme's is along the lines of what I was going to add. I'm a bit of an animist, and I think stories have souls/spirits of their own. Maybe they're just an extension of your own soul, I don't know for certain, but I try to treat my stories like living creatures. Your story will want to go a certain direction, based off the life you've breathed into the characters, and it may not be the same direction you intended to go from the beginning. Trying to force my characters to go down my outlined path just because I'm the boss is often what gives me writer's block. Usually, when I give them a little more rein, they take me down paths I wouldn't have thought of, and make my entire experience as a writer that much more enriching. But that's me speaking as an outliner who has had to learn how to nurture his plots so they grow naturally. If you're the kind of person who has found their strength in spontaneous writing, then maybe what you need is to add a little structure back in so your story can have something to grow into. The balance between structure and creative liberty are what allow a writer to write. Some require more structure and some require more creative liberty. If you're focused one way, try adding a little of the opposite and see what happens.

Yes. Not as often as I used to, but I don't do anything as often as I used to, except write and work. The person below me can easily list their favorite things.

PT - Patrick Tominey A buddy of mine and former coworker. Needlessly reckless but has a good heart.

A very merry day of existence to you.

Winter to Spring Holing to Poling (Yay! We're getting somewhere!)

Winter to Spring Packer to Parker

Winter to Spring Sucked to Sucker There's only one way this can possibly work out at the end. I wonder how long it will take us to get to it?

Winter to Spring Backed to Sacked

Winter to Spring Weeped to weened

This is one of the stories which really brought me into the community at Awesomedude and made me want to become one of them. Of course, that means it also is the reason I eventually ended up here as well. I loved this story, and still do. It's a great read, and I found the characters particularly relatable.

Winter to Spring Sender to Seeder

Jacob wandered the halls, avoiding Oberon at all costs. Now that Ethan was dead, he couldn’t face Oberon at all without being consumed by anger and feeling his malevolence rise to disastrously murderous levels. He would have been fine with that result if it had allowed him the ability to kill Oberon, but that was impossible. Wherever Oberon derived his power from, it apparently gave him the power to resist influence from the spirit realm, leaving Jacob with no recourse but to keep his distan

Candy to heart Heals to Hears

Candy to Heart Teary to Tears

Not particularly. He's really not my type. The person below me sometimes pairs up random strangers in their heads.

Candy to Heart Barry to Berry

Candy to Heart Tarry to Harry (persistently harrass) I recommend adding that to the rules at the beginning in case others make my same mistake.