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"It felt good to laugh. Either Goliath was shrinking, or I was losing bits of him along the way, and however disgusting that image was, I was glad for it."

Is that a good metaphor? I don't know. It amused me when I wrote it, and now I find I like it. Does that make it good writing?

That depends.

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One passing fad said to another,
"That's rather an unlucky colour."
The other paused and then replied,
"There's not a shade 'twixt you and I."

I feel like this really doesn't need anything more.

Did Gaia turn to Venus ( Read more... )

Based on a couple of suggestions and partly because I feel like it, I've now created a journal for the Writer's Attic Column that was originally published on fictionpress.com. Anyone who has in the past read it there will know that lately there have been problems with the column upload process which is making it difficult to access and hard to use ( Read more... )

I need someone to read a novel and give me feedback . . . it's about 67,000 words, so it checks in at around the same length as Huxley's Brave New World, although it's probably not nearly as interesting ( Read more... )

last night I dreamed my bed was ( Read more... )

one night he said sometimes ( Read more... )

Oh my god! I did it! Sixty-seven thousand, three hundred and two words.

This is the first novel I have ever finished!