Photo-Fiction #64 — Random_Michelle

Can you tell a story in 300 words? Here’s the challenge. Write a fictional piece of no more than 300 words based on this picture. You pick your poison, poetry or story. Please don’t forget to, mention this post in yours, and link back here i.e. include a link to this post in your post […]

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Prompt #1911 Avoiding Death by Poison — The Writing Reader

Poisoning used to be a much more effective method of doing away with your enemies, thanks largely in part to the ineffectiveness of historical antidotes and medicine. One fabled poison cure was the bezoar, a hardened spherical deposit of indigestible material that forms in the gastrointestinal tract of hoofed animals. For hundreds of years, bezoars…

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Thursday Photo Prompt – Passage #writephoto — Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo

Use the image below to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT) Wednesday 23rd November and link back to this post with a pingback. Please make sure that the pingback works and if not, copy and paste your link into the comments section […]

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For SF&F Writers. Building Believable Worlds Part 3: Secondary Characters — Notes From The Slush Pile

Every drama needs a supporting cast. In my time as a First Reader with Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, I’ve come across far too many stories that fail to give sufficient thought or depth to secondary characters. An unfortunate, but easy mistake to make when writing short fiction, particularly in the first person. The writer […]

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