David Mamet instructs, “Write dialogue in a rhythmic way. Human speech is rhythmic.”
Tag: Halloween
Spooky Season Writing Prompts
Happy Friday the 13th! ‘Tis the season for spooks, frights, haunts, and treats. ‘Tis also a particularly fun season for crafting Halloween-worthy stories, poems, or creative nonfiction. Here are 10 writing prompts to get your spine-chilling creative juices sparking (a la Dr. Frankenstein’s lightning bolts). Enjoy! [Photo by Marko Blažević on Unsplash]
10 Prompts for Writing Ghost Stories
‘Tis the season… no, not that season. The other one. The spooky one. The one with witches and pumpkins and yellow-eyed cats and headless horsemen. And ghosts. Oh, we all love a good ghost story, don’t we? Those stories that send little tingles running along the back of our neck? Or that have us glancing…
Bad advice from vomiting, armless writers
As we near All Hallow’s Eve, I thought it would be fun to search for some of the—shall we say, less stellar words of advice shared among writers. In keeping with the holiday, they’re only scary if you believe them. NEVER USE ‘SAID’ ‘Said’ is the invisible tag. Instead, make the reader slog through an…
Halloween – yea or nay?
Here we are the second week of October and already, I’m thinking Halloween. I’ve never been a big fan of Halloween. Oh, when I was a kid, we did the costumes and trick or treat thing. And in high school there were the parties. In college, I was much too “serious” a student to join…