Tag: Writing
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The Unicorn Challenge: History Bluff
Six steps up and look to the right, the map said. I counted the six steps and looked to the right, and all I saw at first was the ivy covered wall. Then I saw it. The rusty square drain cover on the ground. Everyone walking by would see it as a drain cover. They…
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Entrée
‘I’m at the address,’ Moonbeam pressed the earpiece into his left ear, really to make sure it was still there and he wasn’t talking to himself, ‘and I’m about to go in… although why I’m doing this, I have no idea.’ ‘Are you still moaning,’ Bubblegum’s tinny voice came back to him almost immediately, ‘you…
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Slippery Ooh Aah!
Ognar Rance frantically looked through the tidy drawers in his garden shed, desperately searching for the syringe he’d used to add his ‘special blend’ formula into his dynamic strength plant food in readiness for the council’s forthcoming Nature’s Makeover competition. ‘Ah,’ he realised, suddenly, ‘the greenhouse… I was in there with it with the tomatoes!’…
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Seeing the Story
I enjoy seeing the story develop when I write. The characters may appear to me before a story takes shape, as the story gets going, or in future chapters. When I start writing, I have little idea as to where I would like the story to go… I just write, and with the help of…
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The Unicorn Challenge: Natural Makeover
Glynis Fairchops left her sisters’ hairdressers hastily; she’d spotted Myrtle and Ognar Rance walking into Avian Way, and needed to catch up with her friend. Miriam and Barbara Barber, AKA the Spinster Sisters, were more than used to Glynis’ unpaid exits. On Avian Way, Glynis found the Rances chatting with Edvard von Grünne outside the…
