Character Development
The Redacted Void
The mountain vibrated. A low, subterranean tremor emanated from the bedrock beneath my cabin. I sat before the screen, a singular, luminous rectangle piercing the velvet night. My limbs, numb, hovered over the keys, paralyzed by a peculiar intellectual paralysis.
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Critique
The Manuscript Beneath the Clock
For seventeen years I have kept a packet of pages within a narrow drawer beneath an ancient clock whose pendulum marks each passing hour with solemn authority. The packet bears no title. Its first page carries a date crossed out so many times that the numerals resemble wounds cut into paper, while its final page ends in the middle of a sentence.
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Critique
Unfinished
I started dreaming of stories from a very young age. For truth I can not tell you what the first story was that started to come together. I do know that i have story notebooks that look like some lost ancient Tomes now. And a memory of a detective that waits to be finished. A lot of the stories I go back to and rework even now. I find that these are the ones people seem to be drawn to. These are also the ones that have marinated and been worked on and reworked on. Out of all of them the one that has been done and redone and relooked at over and over is Heroes? A story where heroes start to appear in a modern world and what happens because of it.
By WrittenWritRalf4 months ago in Critique
Transportation Mistakes Large Groups Should Avoid . AI-Generated.
Planning a trip or event for a large group is already a lot of work. The venue, the schedule, the food - there's plenty to think about. But one thing that gets underestimated more than almost anything else is transportation.
By Veyla Drovik5 months ago in Critique
Washed Out & Washed Up. Runner-Up in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
Watered Down: In old cowboy movies the bad guy wears black and the good guy wears white. Since those days, colours and shades have been added to both antagonists and protagonists - not just to their attire but also to their personalities. But apparently my palette got left out in the rain for this particular story, as all my characters got written in washed-out hues of pedantic boredom.
By Marie Wilson5 months ago in Critique
