Evil Sparrow‭

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 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Tau‭

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 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by celtschk‭

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 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by aparente001‭

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 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Amadeus‭

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 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y 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 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭

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 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  last activity 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 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Razetime‭

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 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭

The problem with your description doesn't seem to be the word count, but a lack of conflict. Sesquipedalias has the right idea - it feels like you've described something that isn't important to you...

posted 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

The new challenge has been posted here.

posted 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭

Welcome to the latest Writing Challenge! In line with the previous one, this includes a topic, a prompt, and also a challenge. Topic The topic of this challenge is finding treasure. This mi...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭