In honor of this outstanding April Fool’s Day Tweet , I present “The Bar Scene” from my Once Upon A Time Fanfic, “These Dreams.” In this fic, Killian and Emma are trapped in the magical world of the Dreamscape, falling in and out of each other’s dreams, as well as the dreams of the good people of Storybrooke.
This, of course, leads to some interesting scenarios… Continue reading
It’s Resource Thursday again, and today I’m going to share some videos that I found particularly helpful. Check ’em out!
10 Tips to help you write dialogue:
Rick Riordan offers 3 tips for young authors: Continue reading
He quirked a brow. “In Ireland?”
1 Line Wednesday
Topic: “Eyebrows”
I am waaaay behind on my fanfic writing.
I’ve been promising a chapter for two weeks now, and worse, it’s the culmination of the fic – double worse, I left the last chapter in a cliffhanger.
I am a bad fanfic author. Continue reading
In my Once Upon A Time Fanfic, “Adrift,” Killian Jones is hit with dastardly curse that sends him back to his formerly wicked ways. It’s up to Emma to save her favorite pirate, and remind him of the man he once grew to be.
In this scene, they’re back in the Enchanted Forest and getting ready to take on a wicked witch (one that this Hook has no memory of meeting).
You’ve got to have conflict in your story. The protagonist has to have something – or someone – s/he’s fighting against and fighting for. Your supporting characters need to have their own agendas and it’s vital that they don’t always agree with the protagonist. You need that conflict to move things along.
Easier said than done sometimes. If you’re looking for some insight into how to make believable conflict and tension, here’s some reading material to give you food for thought: Continue reading
Her face was a study in agony, tears slipping down her cheeks
as she shook with the force of what she was unleashing.
1 Line Wednesday
Topic: “Page 23, 123 or 223”
In this scene from Eight Nights At Sea, our intrepid Pirate Captain Zephyr has just arrived back at his cabin after an argument of epic proportions his beautiful stowaway Rina – one that ended with her knocking him on his behind with a sack of flour and several strategically launched apples.
Zeph knows he was behaving badly, and he’s ready to make amends… Continue reading
I don’t, as a rule, advocate doing all your work for free. Nothing chafes me more than people who reach out to me, asking me to guest blog for this or provide content for that, and for payment, they have this wonderful thing called “exposure” instead of cash.
‘Cause that buys a whole lot of groceries, let me tell you. I pay my mortgage in “exposure” all the time. Continue reading
Here’s a fun FREE read for your Friday entertainment: Meet Caren, who’s taking a trek to escape reality for a little while after receiving a troubling diagnosis. She flees a freak storm and runs straight into a magical creature in the guise of a gorgeous guy name Aengus. Caren gets her wish granted, and redefines the phrase “getting lucky.”
You can read Under The Rainbow here via Smashwords, or download it to any e-reading device.
Britt DeLaney 