Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist
Combining Science and Joyful Creativity
Yet another RocNaNo challenge.
The prompt is to come up with a story based around four random words provided by someone else. I tweeted a request for these one Sunday night. This is what I got:Continue reading “Four Random Words – Challenge Response”
Another response to a RocNaNo Challenge. This one is to write about a road trip with at least three people who are all getting on each other’s last nerve. I managed to work characters from my Herongarde trilogy into here.
A road trip with a 14th century air!Continue reading “Road Trip! – Challenge Response”
Over at the RocNaNo blog, I posted a challenge using this image as a writing prompt.
Here’s my response:Continue reading “First Day of the Dinosaurs – Challenge Response”
I rolled over. The stiff feather blanket scratched across my chin. I blinked my eyes and was surprised to see that this was already daylight. I heard the familiar trills and clucks of the Vrr’ak’l nearby. I shut my eyes again, slowly accepting the reality that I was still in a giant bird’s nest in a tree somewhere on the far side of a light, fluffy, sticky tunnel.Continue reading “Stink Bug – Chapter 11”
I’m in the process of revising my first novel, Prince of Herongarde. I’ve already written a complete first draft, and then gone through and revised it, at which point, I found a bunch of beta-readers and sent it out.
Now I’m looking at it again, trying to incorporate what my readers suggested and fixing things up because I’ve learned I have some bad writing habits. For example, I suffer from ‘white room’ writing, in which there is absolutely no description of the environment in which the characters are acting. I also am guilty of ‘telling’ and not ‘showing.’ Continue reading “Revision, Writing, and Rewriting”
It started with a sneeze that startled me from my slumber. There was a tickle in my throat and I coughed. The tickle wouldn’t go away, and the cough grew in intensity. I sneezed again. My eyes burned. I sat up and looked about. All around me was darkness. A stiff blanket of feathers slid off my body. Another sneeze.Continue reading “Stink Bug – Chapter 10”
Here is my response to yesterday’s challenge over at the RocNaNo blog. Do you have a pet peeve?
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Tap-tap-tap.
Glibert leaned closer to the book. It was hard to make out the text in the fire light. He brought a candle closer. “Those who bear the Mark, must ever give their life in service of their King,” he read aloud. He slid his finger down the text, looking for the line he needed.
Tappa-tap-tap.
Continue reading “Tap-tap-tap”
This is my response to today’s Challenge over at the RocNaNo blog. The challenge is to use this note (found in a used astronomy book we recently purchased) to set the stage for a novel.
The entertainment went on like this for nearly an hour. Sometimes only one Vrr’ak’l would be performing, sometimes as many as ten were leaping and flipping in the air in a mad flutter of feathers and claws. It was probably one of the most amazing things I had ever seen.
I found myself nuzzling into K’eel’s feathers as the evening’s chill set in. She was clucking softly, and grooming W’oo’woo who was snuggled in on her other side. I shuddered from the cold, drawing K’eel’s attention.Continue reading “Stink Bug – Chapter 9”
I encourage all you readers to take a moment and check out the new RocNaNo blog. We post daily with writing prompts and tips, and the occasional bit of our own writing.
Today’s challenge I posted myself. The challenge is to write a story based upon this photo of my cat Charlie, who’s been on my mind a lot lately.
Here’s my answer to the challenge:Continue reading “Couch Potato”
Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist