Check out the next installment of the villain’s tale Checkmate.
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Read the next installment of the villain’s tale in Sergei’s Birthday.
The Office Tryst
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The overbearing boss has gone on vacation and you know what they say about the cat being away… So with Rachel’s help, Nathan will discover how this office offers a few more perks than health insurance and free parking.
How to beat writer’s block in 5 easy steps. By Bren Kyveli
What is writer’s block?
It’s that inexplicable dead silence in your brain when you fire up the laptop to work on a novel, a chapter, a short story… a blog post. It’s that debilitating feeling of utter emptiness where a story should be. You know its there, just moments ago while driving home you had a great idea but now you’re at your laptop and it’s nothing but crickets. Right?
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A Touch of Chaos by Bren Kyveli
Can beauty be found in chaos?
My knee-jerk reaction is: “Pfft. Absolutely not. Chaos is terrible and serves no purpose, there must be order in all things.”
But then I wrote a book and it changed my mind.
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Villains: Heroes of their own stories. By Bren Kyveli
Have you ever been disappointed in a show or book because the villain is taken down too easily? Or conversely, lost interest because the villain is just too powerful, or to indestructible?
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Any unwanted behavior can be changed with the right conditioning. How hard could it be? That’s what Blake thought anyway when he enlisted the services of “Blue Dragon.”
Now after a few sessions with the seductive Mistress and the beautiful Lolly he’s discovering desires he didn’t even know he had. A single word is all it will take to have his eyes opened to a whole new level of pleasure, one only Mistress can show him. All he has to do is be brave enough to say it.
The Novel Road by Bren Kyveli
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
-E. L. Doctorow
I have been working on my first novel for a year now, but if I’m being honest I’ve not been serious about it. It’s always just something I work on when I don’t have anything else and even then only half assed. I guess subconsciously I put it so far up on a pedestal that it sort of became this magical, unobtainable glass ceiling that only “real authors” were allowed to achieve.
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Writing Contests by: Bren Kyveli
Have you ever participated in a writing contest? How about a flash fiction one? How about a flash fiction challenge with only 48 hours to write, edit, and have beta read a story, in an assigned genre you may or may not be familiar with? You should, it’s a great teaching tool.
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How well do you know your character’s pain? by Bren Kyveli
A few months ago I wrote a short story about a gangster who was beaten and left for dead and forced to walk back into the city to exact his revenge. I drew on all my experiences of pain,
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