Archive for May 2008
Lovely, Lovely, Locket Love
Posted by: josh on: May 30, 2008
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I lie in the dark on my bed, the one you knew so well. The lava lamp’s on. The blue swirls of color paint the ceiling and the walls. The posters are still crooked without you there to tell me if they’re straight or not. There’s a black light lamp beside my guitar amp. Pink [...]
The Fate of the World Hangs in the Balance!
Posted by: josh on: May 21, 2008
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Personal conflicts are an integral element of making a story engaging. While some of these personal obstacles are internal, within the characters, many stories focus on external factors, most often personified by an antagonist. A bad guy (or girl).
Something that you should always remember is that personal conflict, the intimate struggles that the hero or [...]
Birthday & Rainbow Sheep
Posted by: josh on: May 19, 2008
- In: Life| Valentine| Writing
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So, I turned 21 today. I didn’t go out drinking. It’s been a pretty calm day, actually.
I entered my first ever writing contest, though. It’s over at Nathan Bransford’s blog. It centers around strong dialog, in which you enter your dialog, as well as supporting descriptions, no longer than 250 words long. The winner gets [...]
The Taste of Sin
Posted by: josh on: May 15, 2008
Inner turmoil has always been, to me, the most engaging and provocative of all conflicts imagined by the creative mind. The concept of the antihero, the protagonist of those noir stories, not quite criminal but dancing on that thin line of black and white in that sliver of shadowy gray. Humming in the rain before [...]
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I'm 22. I live in New York. I'm a writer. I love the arts, especially indie music and movies.
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