Once again, my six-sentence sample this week is from my work-in-progress, a parody of Fifty Shades of Grey called One Shade of Red. My aim is to mirror this inexplicable bestseller, but have somewhat more believable characters and better writing. The main character is Damian, a 20-year-old virgin who lacks self-confidence. He has been forced […]
I jumped deep into National Novel Writing Month this year. I had an idea during the summer for a book, and somewhere around late September, I decided to make it my NaNoMo project. The idea: to write a parody of the bestseller Fifty Shades of Gray, but to do it better. The goal: 50,000 words […]
Joe McCoubrey on Style Joe McCoubrey knows a thing or two about writing style. As a newspaper editor, he dealt with several writers’ styles before turning to fiction with his first novel, a thriller set in his home of Northern Ireland during its “troubles.”Joe has graciously agreed to weigh in on Written Words’ Style debate. […]
By Benjamin X. Wretlind 5 stars Benjamin X. Wretlind’s beautiful, haunting and, to a writer, mind-blowing Sketches from the Spanish Mustang is literature of the highest kind.Sketches from the Spanish Mustang is a novel in disguise as a cycle of stories set in the town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, where the Spanish Mustang is one […]
Image: Wikipedia Commons Today’s Six Sunday Sample is another from my National Novel Writing Month work-in-progress, One Shade of Red, a parody of (you guessed it!) Fifty Shades of Grey. This excerpt comes from what’s shaping up to be Chapter 7: The Dinner Date. It takes place in a high-end restaurant in downtown Toronto. The […]
Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of work that shows severe problems with sentence structure. Whether in fiction or non-fiction, it’s almost as if the writers do not understand what a sentence is. For example: An analysis of survey results conducted by GHI concluded that different groups of consumers face different kinds of challenges, this […]
November 20 and 21 only: You can download four fantastic Guild of Dreams fantasy books for FREE! THE BONES OF THE EARTH By Scott Bury The Dark Age, eastern Europe: the earth has decided to rid itself of humanity with earthquakes, volcanoes and new plagues. Civilizations, even the mighty Roman Empire, crumble under the pressure […]