Writing challenge for the creative writer.

Choose a word and create a synopsis.  

It's fun and stimulates your creativity!

Challenge

This is my first web page and I can say anything I want in here - I do that by putting text or images in the body section - where I'm typing right now :) Here are a few single word titles and what I challenge you to do is write a synopsis for a short story using one title of your choice. Simple, right? I guess we'll see.

Title 1: Extrinsic
Title 2: Risque
Title 3: Celestial
Title 4: Tryst
Title 5: Text
Title 6: Stark
Title 7: Afar
Title 8: Succumb
Title 9: Storm
Title 10: Wither
You may post your synopsis here for others to comment on or simply use for exercise purposes. Always challenge yourselves guys and gals and above all keep scrawling.

Popplet

Popplet.  creative, fun, and just plain cool!

If you haven't tried this, you've gotta.  I just love it.  It keeps your thoughts organized and I think can help when brainstorming an idea for a new story.  Try it out guys.

My Popplet:

http://popplet.com/app/#/313918

Now get one for yourself:

 http://popplet.com/

Hell Happens

New novel "Hell Happens" is now available at Amazon.com

Check it out now!

At Amazon.com and on Kindle

Letting you know that "Hell happens" will be available on Kindle Mother's day.  Keep an eye out for it!
Hooray for me!

Mother's day!

Happy Mother's Day!

This has nothing to do with writing except the occasional Hallmark card or sweet letter from a child to his/her mother.  I just want to wish all the mom's out there a very happy and wonderful Mother's day.  I hope all is great for you on this day and the sun shines down on us all.

Dialogue

Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue.  Get it right!

Be sure you tag your dialogue correctly.

When writing dialogue, I have seen common mistakes that many people make, even I had made many of them when I had first started.  Not a lot of books go over the dialogue tags,  so I am going to give you a quick lesson in how to write these correctly.
Here is an example of dialogue tags:

He said
She said
He snapped
She spoke eagerly
He said in a grudging voice
These are dialogue tags.  The trick is to write them correctly.  For instance;

Wrong:   "Let's get outta here."  He said. 
Correct:  "Let's get outta here," he said.  

Notice how I added a comma after what he said then ended the sentence AFTER the dialogue tag.  The only time you will end the sentence before the dialogue tag is when you are using one of these;  ! or?.  There are other exceptions as well, however.

Example:  "Should we get outta here?"  He asked in a husky voice.

You want to end the sentence BEFORE the dialogue tag then space TWICE and add dialogue tag as its own sentence.
Another mistake people make is when the character is quoting another person.  You should always use the single quotations around the quote.

Example:  "You know, Amy," he began.  "Confucius says 'to go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.'"
This may look strange, but you do need those single quotes in there.
There are a number of other rules that are a must when writing a novel.  I found a great site that explains pretty much ALL the rules of writing dialogue tags.  I suggest all of you check these rules out if anything, to be certain you are writing ALL of them correctly.
Writing World.com
Be sure to check out the rest of there site because they have great information there.  Happy scrawling guys and if you have any questions about dialogue tags, be sure to ask.

Idea!

Book idea for the creative writer.

Are you stumped for a story idea?  Here's one to get you started.

My father was a very intelligent man and his last contribution to this world was to be a story to help teens become better, more spiritual people.  He had an idea to write a story about a handful of teens fighting demons and it had to be written in such a way that the reader believed they were fighting actual demons, but in the end, would find out that they were fighting their own internal demons.  He was planning to write this story, but was over-come with heart failure before he could make that happen.  I am writing about this in hopes that one of you will have an idea of how to write this story in such a way that would make my father proud.  I would write it, but I think it would be better to have a fresh pair of eyes on this one.  It's my fathers idea and I just don't think I can create the type of work that he would have.  I write very differently.  Perhaps there is someone out there who thinks the same way my father did and will write this story the way my father would have if he had the chance.  He never liked books that had flashbacks in them or that went from one character to another all the time.  He felt this type of writing confused the reader.  He read the Urancia all the time and believed completely in its teaching, so someone who had the same beliefs would be great for this task.  I leave this up to all of you in hopes that I will someday see this story on the shelves.   If you do take the time to write this story, please make a small dedication to my father, "John Rambish"  in it.  You don't have to, of course, but it would have made him very happy.  Thank you all and happy scrawling everyone.

coming up with a story idea

Book ideas.

How to get your creativity flowing.

Use your imagination to form ideas for great stories.  Keep a dream journal.  Your dreams are your imagination hard at work and you never know when something from your nocturnal world will bring forth an amazing idea for a story.  This is where you can take a normal, recently widowed woman and have her try to drown herself only to find an impossible alternate world as in the wonderful story, "Sea Changes" by Gail Graham.  Some of the best authors use their imaginations to write amazing stories like J.K Rowling and her "Harry Potter" series or Collins and "The hunger games." 

Use reality as your muse for a wonderful story.  Use ideas from your own life or watch the news. scan the net, or read the paper for great story ideas.  Watch the people around you. listen to the "old timer's" stories (which can be terrific stories) they have so much to say and have seen a lot more.  Some of J.K Rowling's writing is from reality as well.  Look at her "Harry Potter" series for instance, Rowling was a teacher, so she added a school and therefore already new a bit about schools, how they're run as well as a teachers roll in the educational system then she put a huge spin on it.  All you need is a small spark to ignite an entire idea.

Although you may NEVER use exact text from other people, you may still come up with a great idea from something you've read.  I have received inspiration from novels.  Some writers will even mention other authors characters in their own stories.  Of course, you should ALWAYS receive permission prior to doing this.

I've even picked up ideas from the Thesaurus.  Yes, you can come up with great ideas from a mere word.  Those words have complete definitions behind them and those definitions can go a long way toward helping a writer.  After all, great writing first starts with words.  You can't have a story without them.