Slightly Untuned – Part 5 – End His car had never felt so slow, like that night. The sky was already dark, and the dispersed clouds covered the thin sickle that was left of the moon. The sparse lights along the road blurred away as he speeded in the short stretch of highway that connected […]
As of today, I begin a new project: I Write You. You may use the form below to submit me a short description of one of your secret fantasies. A set-up, an event, a game… whatever. Periodically, I’ll choose one of the submitted ideas and I’ll write one of my short stories for you. Try […]
Slightly Untuned – Part 4 Leon and Susan slept only for a couple of hours. When he woke up, due to the fact he had drunk quite a lot at the club too, he absolutely needed to pee. During the night, though, they had both changed position and the result was Susan’s head resting on […]
Slightly Untuned – Part 3 Susan lived in a town nearby and it took no more than twenty minutes to get there. When the GPS notified their arrival, they were in an area composed mostly of small, two-storey, colourful townhouses. Her one seemed to be a shade of orange but Leon wondered if it wasn’t […]
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 […]