Just posted (Reworked) Doom Valley Prep School. You can find it HERE.
It's about 1500 to 2000 words longer, and involves more world building.
Far better than the original.
After a long break due to family tragedy and other things, I've spent the last few months getting back into old stories and things, specifically Whateley, on their Discord and website.
While I was doing that people kept talking about Doom Valley Prep School, and sent me some of the blogs here talking about the story.
From my personal challenge a few days ago, I found I really like the supernatural world I set up. For those of you who haven't read it here are the details.
I'm really annoyed today for lots of different reasons, and I can't really concentrate on work or the stories already in progress.
So to get my head in order, I'm asking for some challenges and ideas.
If you can please give me one or more of the following:
1) a really strange plot hook, 1 to 2 sentences.
2) three or more things, settings, locations, characters, etc, that don't seem to fit together.
3) a single sentence, the stranger the better, that has to be properly used in the story.
I have to call the police tomorrow.
Just found out that on Friday my ex was showing my daughter a gun on Skype. A nice realistic pistol.
My daughter was talking about it today, so we went and checked the video camera which records the calls, and there's my wife holding a pistol up quite happily showing it off.
Since she's never taken a firearms course, it's illegal, and with how she's been asking very specifically about my daughters schedule, I'm a little alarmed. Only the fact that she's 14 hours away keeps me calling the police right now.
I'm getting divorced from my wife, after she hit me in front of our four year old daughter. So I've got our daughter and she and her mother haven't personally met since May, but talk on Skype regularly.
Quite often my wife will ask if she misses her, and my daughter if she answers will quietly say no, giving my wife the chance to say she misheard or come up with some excuse.
I'm starting a new YA novel, post-apocalyptic, fairly dark but realistic dark not just dark for the fun of it, and where the female MC cross dresses for safety. The story involves a trip halfway across the continent on a scientific recovery mission, with giant monsters, bandits, raiders, and other problems plaguing them.
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