One of the most basic way of coming up with story ideas is to take a familiar story or thing, list out what’s commonly associated with it, then start changing some of those elements. For example, you list out all the normal things for vampires–the coffins, black, bats, sucking blood, etc.–then you begin to twist.
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Maya lives in a yurt. She has glorious garbage floors. And chickens that run around and lay pastel eggs in odd places like buckets–Easter every day. Here’s a list of her most popular blogs. So, folks. Maya has a fascinating life (as do most people when you start to get the details). So fascinating that you can’t help but
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Since I watch about 45 minutes of raw TV each week I tend to be behind on commercials. And while I don’t mind that most of the time, these were too good to miss. I luvs them. I really do. DREAM GIRL SINGING PIRATES AND THE BEST OF ALL…NEW CAR Love the beat and lyrics
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On Writing Excuses someone talked about writing an epic fantasy in a limerick. I figured I’d give it a go. Of course, it’s a slight cheat, but epic nevertheless. A tiny man with a ring Said I’ll save the world from this thing He traveled to Mordor But in very short order Was trounced by the
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This is Warren Ellis. I heat my house with radiant heating. When we built this place, Nellie, I, and the girls laid down yards and yards of tubing. Then the mudmen came in and covered it all up with concrete. We run hot water through that tubing. That water it heated by a boiler, which also heats the
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