Evil Sparrow
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See all 51 »Welcome to the resurrected (again) Writing Challenge! In line with previous ones, this includes a topic, a prompt, and also a challenge. Topic The topic of this challenge is a difficult jou...
2 answers · posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 3y ago by celtschk
In one scene, I have a conversation between three characters: A, B and C. A's son and B are involved in something illegal. C isn't aware, and since A and B aren't entirely sure she can be trusted, ...
4 answers · posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 5y ago by Tau
One of my characters gets drunk and accidentally kills another. He has a couple of lines where he needs to sound obnoxiously, falling-down drunk. Is there a good way to accomplish this? What sound...
6 answers · posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 6y ago by aparente001
In the last two hours, Stan Woodward had learned to truly hate Christmas carols. Just before the crash he'd been punching the buttons on the radio, trying to find a station that was playing real m...
posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · edited 6y ago by Evil Sparrow
Brianna slouched in her seat, staring out the window, the worksheet on her desk forgotten. There were hundreds of things she could think of to do on a beautiful May afternoon, and none of them invo...
posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · edited 6y ago by Evil Sparrow
Some managers, Lucy thought, need to have their meeting privileges revoked. She fidgeted and looked at the clock in the corner of her screen: 5:34 PM. The Tuesday afternoon meeting had been schedul...
posted 5y ago by Evil Sparrow
Carlos picked at his macaroni and cheese, trying not to look up at the picture on the wall. Grandma set down her fork and looked at him, frowning. "What's wrong? You liked that the last time you we...
posted 5y ago by Evil Sparrow · edited 5y ago by Evil Sparrow
A dialogue of mine contains the following sentence: "You fired all three of them?!" Trouble is, I'm not sure I've ever seen a novel that used a question mark and an exclamation point together...
5 answers · posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 6y ago by Amadeus
I wouldn't recommend this. Anything that appears in quotation marks is meant to be taken literally. When I first read your example, my first thought was that Celine was talking - and actually sayi...
posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 6y ago by System
I notice we aren't getting a lot of new questions on here yet. Last summer we had a series of writing challenges in Meta, like this one: https://writing.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2127 I'd like to ...
1 answer · posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 6y ago by Evil Sparrow
The end of the school week came as a relief for Megan McAllister, and she was looking forward to going home and doing something fun. She lounged in the back of the car, staring up at the sky and tr...
posted 5y ago by Evil Sparrow
Two characters (one is a PoV character) come up with a plan to break a third out of prison. They succeed, with only minor complications. If I describe too many details of their plan beforehand, it ...
2 answers · posted 5y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 5y ago by Razetime
If you're trying to have it feel less like the second description is interrupting the first, I'd recommend pulling out the description of B (the classroom) and making its own paragraph, establishin...
posted 6y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 6y ago by System
It helps if you use something else instead of quotation marks for the telepathic dialogue. For example: <Don't worry, the SWAT team is already on their way.> Parentheses and italics can do ...
posted 7y ago by Evil Sparrow · last activity 6y ago by System
