For someone, the question doesn’t even apply. I mean, you are from England, from America, from Ireland… you grew up speaking native English, you’ll likely write in that too. I envy – almost – all of you. Common mortals like me and – let’s say – around 25% of the rest of the world, speak […]
Slightly Untuned – Part 2 After a couple of seconds, Leon dared to look in her direction again. Susan: why did he think about that name? Did he really know that girl? He couldn’t recall. He looked at her from afar. The floor just below the stage seemed to be her natural environment: she danced, […]
Slightly Untuned As long as he could remember, Leon had never liked to be among unknown people. He had never liked parties too much; he had never liked to go to the cinema – closed in such a tigh space with nowhere to run – or to the disco. But there was an exception to […]
A World for Sara She spread her legs and arched her back to lift her ass a little. That was Sara’s way to invite her man inside her, to tell him “This is yours, use it as you wish!” Oh, she loved the feeling of those few seconds she waited for him to touch her. […]
Once you finish writing your story, before sending it to your beta-readers or your editor (BTW, also before actually publishing it!) you should remember to do at least one consistency check. What’s consistency about? Is what you wrote consistent through the different scenes/chapters of your book? If not, that could confuse or mislead your reader. […]
“There’s no thing as a Happy Place!” Page the cottage shouted in the direction of Gunter the ladder. “For ze Hundrez time, me tellen you zere is, und vee life in it!” he pointed out, with his typical German accent. “You’re telling me this God-forsaken little cup is a happy place? The Happy Place? You […]
Rosetta had never talked to that man too much, even if he had been her tenant for a couple of months already. The small apartment she had inherited from her grandmother and that she had rented him was on the seventh floor, under the roof, at the top of the building, out of the sight […]