Nefarious Creature

Andrew Brosnatch - Weird Tales, November 1931

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[Caption: a realistic digital painting of Dream of the Endless from The Sandman series. Dream is portrayed by Tom Sturridge, a white actor. Portrait is from the waist up with strong, pale light shining down, and Dream is wearing a slender black overcoat with a high, flipped collar. His chaotic black hair is swept to one side. The background is a skyscape of distant, violet-gray clouds looming above and below a band of soft orange dusk.]

that's my best friend

Artwork by Aalma do Luar (Aalma’s Artville)

Pre-Yelp review.

Driftwood by Adam Oehlers.

Part of me is still annoyed that this fucker still doesn’t have a proper title. Or at least something that sounds better as a place holder.

suddenly the name of the house itself throws up new questions which an author in answering goes off down a rabbit hole of worldbuilding.

Thank you so much!!!!!

from Tiny Beautiful Things, adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos. 

No Down Time: You need some down time in a story. The action scenes can go fast, but after that something should slow the story. The reader needs time between fast paced scenes to wrap their head around what had just happened, but this doesn’t mean it should be a pattern of fast-slow-fast-slow. Mix it up. Entire chapters or scenes shouldn’t be fast or slow. They can be a combination. There can be little moments of quiet in an action scene where you can catch up on everything that happened within the narration and where you can put in more detail about the world around your character.

Possibly more in future (they'll be under the short story reading post category)

Some emerging fascinations (I'll write posts on some of these eventually) include general structural patterns, how list-and-vignette stories get away with it, the similarities between revolution and chronic-pain stories, the evolution of certain story-shapes, the habits of purgatorial stories, unexpected approaches to dealing-with-death stories, different ways of approaching fairy-tale retellings, how to manage a monologue, classic Gothic shapes, and how stories that are told over a character's lifetime shape the momentum of the story.

Bog Guard by i Asimov

Invader Girl aka Invadergirl aka Black Canvas LLC (German, b. Germany) - Death Waits for None, Paintings: Golden Acrylic on gallery Canvas