This is another offering by one of our guest authors, Lee McMullen. Some sentiments are universal. 🙂 Tick. And the second hand moves to another number. How can time move slower at the end of a shift? It had been a typical Saturday night shift from 1830 to 0630 Sunday. The only possible description was …
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Good Boy pt 3
Sharon’s note: I like writing date scenes. Most date scenes in romance today just talk about how sexually attracted the characters are to one another and forego building chemistry all together. I miss chemistry, gosh darn it. Warning: Author is going for cute. Sam was waiting for me at one of two tables inside the …
Carnival Girl Pt 5
Sharon’s Note: Character development is tricky. You have to try to balance story progression versus character progression, and you don’t want to leave either one behind. In romance, it’s kind of weird because the character development is the main story, and anything else happening is b plot. You still can’t abandon it, but it shifts …
Hard Hunting: The Hospital Pt 3
Sharon’s note: One of the hardest things about being in a hospital is dealing with other patients. There are entitled, whiny jerks there just like anywhere else, but that’s not what I’m talking about. There is a worse kind of person to deal with. Sometimes they’re in a lot of pain. They are always extremely …
Liminal Spaces Pt 3
Sharon’s Notes: I like horror, but I have mixed feelings about how horror starts. It’s always slow, and it’s easy to loose your audience when the beginning is slow. Unfortunately, horror has a lot of the same problems as both fantasy and romance. You need time to build the world and tension as well as …
Good Boy Pt 2
Sharon’s Note: So, I like the occasional broody-boy love interest (although far too often do the lines of broody and jerk get blurred), but I think the archetype of the happy-puppy love interest is seriously under utilized. Sometimes you’ll see one in a love triangle, but he gets tossed aside because the broody-boy ‘needs’ the …
Monster Wanted
Sharon’s note: So, the inspiration for this was an old Sesame Street song, that I always loved, but thought had some . . . interesting subtext for a kids’ song. I’m actually a fan of subtext of any kind in kids’ media that they don’t understand. It makes it more consumable for adults, and when …
Carnival Girl Pt 4
Sharon’s note: So, I’m teaching myself to write horror at the same time I’m writing this, and because romance and horror are oddly similar in style, I think they’re starting to bleed together. Meh, it’s probably fine. My husband takes me on dates to horror movies after all. Warning: Creepy and cute, but not quite …
Good Boy Pt 1
Sharon’s note: So, I threatened to write this on Facebook, so here it goes. One wholesome, fated mate werewolf romance, complete with actual alpha behavior coming up. Warning: Author finds herself writing a lot of romance lately, and is curious about this turn in her writing. Dad’s house was across from the park. For a …
Liminal Spaces Pt 2
Sharon’s note: So, writing this is harder than I thought. Horror is a genre of grit and demons, but it’s the personal type of demons. Horror is about people, and has to be character driven to make people really feel the fear. I generally create story driven narratives. It’s what I like to read, so …
Gray Matters: The Works of Sharon and James Gray 