Tag: character building
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Violets in a Storm
This morning as I was sitting here looking up a recipe for crystallized violets I was thinking about the way children grow. I should elucidate. The Jr Mad Scientist is turning 18 in a few short weeks. For her sixth birthday, I believe, I decorated her birthday cake with violets from the garden. That…
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Be a Mistake
(author’s note: flash fiction from a friend’s prompt about giving compliments and how they help the giver more than the given). “It would be a mistake,” she said, crossing her legs and looking out over the water, not at him. Never at him. “To say I didn’t care.” “No?” He stood looking over her head…
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Characteristics
A meme-ified version of the post earlier. Please feel free to download the image and share…
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Bringing Life
I’ve been working on writing. It’s slow, because right now I’m re-reading and editing, which adds words to the overall total (The East Witch weighs in at 27K out of a planned 100K for perspective) but not a lot. What it does is breathes life into the story for me again. My problem right now…