Understanding how to create tension in a story is key to writing a gripping, ‘I’ll just read one more page before bed’ read. Here are eight steps to ensure your story has effective narrative tension. Watch the brief video below, then read the article: 1: Create a conflict crucial to your characters 2: Create engaging … Continue reading Creating Conflict and Tension In Your Story

We are time and space, linear, singular, all encompassing. We see it, feel it, we are it, as large as the expanse of all of it, as small as the infinite smallness that folds into quantum universes beyond human eyes, beyond those made of light and the purest energy. We extract ourselves from it to … Continue reading Chapter 120 – Glue of Love

We were bonded into each other, he and I and the Karl, the Shirley and all the others, even the Greta. We are bonded, always have been, forever since time, though it is unknown until we return here, each time every time. More than bonded we are one thing, a thing beyond being a person … Continue reading Chapter 119 – Bonded

There was a ring around the city, no dog or person in the streets, just the leftovers from a plague of iron rain. All seekers of peace were gone. Carnivores searched the dark empty holes, finding only ghosts and memories. No need for an alien enemy. We are a cannibal consuming our own flesh, our … Continue reading The Essence of Man

We saw the lives we had just departed, he and me. “It wasn’t her,” our Jon voice said. “She didn’t kill me with poison or with needles. It was just a drink to help me sleep. I was so tired but could not sleep. My body ached in every ancient joint and weary bone. My … Continue reading Chapter 118 – Multitudes