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- April 9th, 2010, 8:30 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Why do you reread books?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13869
Re: Why do you reread books?
The only books I find myself re-reading tend to be anything by Stephen King. Especially his short story collections. I think I've read "Skeleton Crew" and "Night Shift" about twenty times each. I've also re-read Clive Barker's "Imajica" several times. When it's King, I ...
- March 13th, 2010, 4:30 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 817110
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
New post: What is it about fear? For me, it's worse than the vampires: http://zoecourtman.blogspot.com/2010/03 ... -fear.html
- March 6th, 2010, 11:34 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Share your opening sentence!
- Replies: 236
- Views: 86076
Re: Share your opening sentence!
Okay, so I looked at my second/third sentences and thought this might work better:
"The waitress took one look at the hooded teenager standing across the dark lot and murmured to herself, “Here comes trouble.”
"The waitress took one look at the hooded teenager standing across the dark lot and murmured to herself, “Here comes trouble.”
- March 5th, 2010, 5:58 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: "Interview with an Agent" - INTERACTIVE WITH SUSAN HAWK
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20819
Re: New Blog Series: "Interview with an Agent" - NEW INTERVIEW
This is a fantastic series! Thanks for the insights :D
- March 5th, 2010, 4:59 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Share your opening sentence!
- Replies: 236
- Views: 86076
Re: Share your opening sentence!
"The girl couldn’t bring herself to close the door."
- March 5th, 2010, 4:50 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 307853
Re: What are you reading now?
Just finished Straub's A Dark Matter. Brilliantly done, and I loved the sorta literary horror bent. Next up? If On A Winter's Night A Traveler.
- February 25th, 2010, 11:48 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Daily Darling
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7525
Re: Daily Darling
Great idea, aspiring! Think I'll do that :) (Oh, how we cling, we cling...)aspiring_x wrote: sometimes it helps me with the loss anxiety to paste it in a file I have of sentences to be used when appropriate. that way, it's not gone forever... but really it sort of is.
- February 25th, 2010, 9:50 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Daily Darling
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7525
Re: Daily Darling
"He bummed a cigarette and, squinting around the totem of smoke, pieced together the story for the cops."
*sigh* I loved that damned totem, too.
*sigh* I loved that damned totem, too.