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Story Six - Everything changes but you
21/11/2012 20:31
"Emily, will you marry me?" asked Victor from his down-on-one-knee position. Her response was to fling her arms around him so forcefully that they both almost tumbled to the restaurant floor. The other customers cheered and the manager supplied a bottle of champagne. Everyone...
Story Five - Hit me baby, one more time
17/11/2012 11:20
"Emily, will you marry me?" asked Victor from his down-on-one-knee position. Her response was to throw her arms around him almost knocking him onto the rain-slicked promenade.
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The next morning, he awoke to find himself alone in bed and a text on his 'phone; "rly call from boss c...
Story Four - The Doctor's Wife
12/11/2012 20:24
"Miss Baker... Emily... Will you marry me?" asked Doctor Victor Smith from his down-on-one-knee position. Her response was to throw her arms around him so forcefully that they both rolled onto the grass in a most unseemly manner. However, since they were alone in that part of the...
Story Three - Beauty and the Beholder
06/11/2012 21:43
"Emily, will you marry me?" asked Victor, gazing up at her from his down-on-one-knee position. Her response was to throw her arms around his neck so suddenly that they both tumbled over onto the grass. They landed with him lying underneath. "Watch it! I nearly dropped...
Story Two - Sleeping Beauty
04/11/2012 15:54
"Emily, will you marry me?" asked Victor, gazing up at her from his down-on-one-knee position. Her response was to throw her arms around his neck, almost knocking him over.
There was a round of applause from the restaurant's other customers and a bottle of champagne on ice from the...
Story One - When Victor met Emily
03/11/2012 14:03
"Emily, will you marry me?" asked Victor, gazing up at her from his down-on-one-knee position. Her response was to throw her arms around his neck, almost knocking him over.
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They had first met about two years earlier at an auction house where they were both bidding on the same...
November is here!
03/11/2012 10:40
OK, so it's the 3rd but who's counting?
The first part of my 'NaNo with a twist' is now up. Really looking forward to seeing where all this goes!
Introduction - the first part of my 'NaNo with a twist' for 2012
03/11/2012 08:56
So, it's November. The nights are getting longer and colder, the leaves are nearly gone from the trees, there are fireworks and poppies everywhere in about equal quantities, normally clean-shaven men are growing mustaches... and writers everywhere are attempting to write a novel in 30...
Genre bending
24/10/2012 12:02
My 'comfort zone' genre - both reading and writing - is a kind of blurred sci-fi/fantasy. You know the kind of thing - some interesting tech in some form of AU setting.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld is an interesting example of this. The initial impression is...
Thick and fast
18/10/2012 15:50
I'm up to about 12 story ideas and a couple of suggested unifying themes. So, this new approach of deliberately looking out for ideas seems to be working - at least for the moment.
As I said in the last blog, I've never really gone looking for ideas before. Partly this is...
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