The Bridport Prize, famous for 'discovering' Kate Atkinson, and which includes categories for poetry, short story, novel and flash fiction, closes 31 May. This year it includes a Never Too Late Award for writers of 60+ which, it says, 'unlocks...
Woke up to find a Chinese company who I’ve dealt with previously has successfully billed my credit card four times for goods not ordered. It’s a lot of money. Credit card company says – “wait for the good to arrive, then see if you can return...
I'm partial to describing a character by describing their space and their actions.
Here I'm introducing the Prior from the point of view of the protagonist:
A massive desk of dark, timeworn wood stood at the center, its surface gleaming...
Woke up to find a Chinese company who I’ve dealt with previously has successfully billed my credit card four times for goods not ordered. It’s a lot of money. Credit card company says – “wait for the good to arrive, then see if you can return...
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke and Bone:
P1 "Snow and Stone and Ghostlight, Karou's own footsteps and the steam from her coffee mug, and she was alone and adrift in mundane thoughts: school, errands."
(Now we have a good idea of her age.)
P2...
Thank you for posting this and starting this discussion. I'm not sure where you got these from but to me they sound almost like they were written by AI -- like cheesy stock descriptions with a modifier that is very telly. Why describe only to...
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