Echoes

from the open_on_sunday challenge

Echoes BtVS S4

Buffy stared at her college text books stacked on the edge of her bed as if waiting for her to open them. Instead, she barely noticed them, her gaze turned inward. It had been weeks but she still couldn’t believe Angel had left.

He said it was for her sake but shouldn’t she have had a say in what was good for her? This missing him was destroying her, ruining her concentration. She was going to fail out of college and get killed in a fight. It was hard to slay when her ears were filled with echoes of him.

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not too many this month and gee I would love to see the other members of bookheaven to do their reviews since it's lonely with just me there.

Manga: Nightmare Inspector #7

Manga: Ral & Grad #4, Books: What Angels Fear

Books: Bones of Betrayal

Manga: Vampire Knights #6, Vampire Portrait#1, Cirque du Freak #1

Manga: Tetragrammaton Labyrinth #3, Book: Nercopath

Book: Cemetery Dance

Writerly Ways

You'd think I'd have more to say here. Ther were accomplishments. Mysterious SPirit got sent off to Dreamspinner's Games in the Dark anthology for consideration. Much fan fic was written. I've even made some headway on that space opera and got it up for the original fiction filter but it's not done. I'd hate to see it go to waste. (and it might, 25K is too long for most publishers which is the downside to Samhain's high word count requirements)

I was leafing through that gimicky Writer's Kit I got and found this card that I thought might be helpful to the other writers here.

Character Mannerisms
One of the ways to make characters more realistic is to give them mannerisms and habits that remain consistant throughout the text. These can be as subtle as someone always having his right hand in his pocket...make a list of mannerisms and habits for your characters that fall into the following categories: stressed, sad, happy, frustrated, tired etc. (i.e. how do they change with emotional states).

wrote another 3300+ words this week and according to the counter I'm three quarters of the way to my yearly goal. I guess that's something

75347 / 100000 words. 75% done!