Ok, I know I've been a little lax on the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge, and I apologize. But here's a new installment for you. As always, the rules were simple - look at the prompt for a few seconds, and then start writing. 5 minutes is all I get. When the timer dings, I have to stop. Fun, right? So this one was sort of out of my comfort zone when I first saw the writing prompt, but once I started writing the story just took shape. The prompt was this... Your character wak

It's Friday, and that means it's time for another installment of the Arial Burnz Fiction Friday Writing Challenge! This week's prompt was a true challenge for me because it involved Tarot Cards - something I know nothing about. So before I could begin writing, I had to look up what a certain card meant in the world of Tarot. But once I did, the little story popped right into my head. This was the prompt... Your character is visiting a psychic and getting his/her tarot cards r

It's Friday, and that means it's time for another installment of the Arial Burnz Fiction Friday Writing Challenge! This week's prompt was just one sentence, and the moment I read it, I had tons of different scenarios running through my mind. It was work to filter through them quickly and focus on just one. But the one thread I latched onto was this sweet little number. I hope you enjoy it! The prompt was: This was not the way he expected to die. And here's what I did with it.

It's Friday, and that means it's time for another installment of the Arial Burnz Fiction Friday Writing Challenge! This week's prompt was a very beautiful image from an artist named Ravven, and you can learn more about her work by clicking on the above link to the writing challenge. She does amazing work. Ok, remember the rules of the challenge are to set a timer and write for just 5 minutes. That's not a whole lot of time, so the exercise is teaching me to get right to the m

Ok, so it's been a good long while since I participated in the Arial Burnz Fiction Friday Writing Challenge, and I'm sorry about that because I've missed it. What I love about this exercise is that it really does seem to help teach me how to get to the point in my writing, how to get right to the tension so to speak. It also forces a truly horrible and irregular blogger (namely ME) to get an actual blog posted at least once a week, which I am so freaking bad at otherwise. So,

Ready for this week's installment of the Arial Burnz Fiction Friday Writing Challenge? Gotta warn you, it's a little bit creepy. But hey... it's almost Halloween, so creepy is the order of the day! Here's the prompt... Your character opens the front door, expecting the usual crowd of Trick-or-Treaters … and gasps! And here's what I did with it... The doorbell rings and I glance up from the TV and roll my eyes. This is the fifth time I’ve had to pause the show to get up and sm

I've been so busy with things going on in my real life lately that it's been a few weeks since I had time to participate in Arial Burnz's Fiction Friday Writing Challenge. But I want to make up for that today. Today's prompt is sort of creepy, at least it is to my mind. And I suppose that's fitting since today is October, Friday the 13th ... the creepiest of ALL days! Here's the prompt... Strapped to a lab table, your character regards the doctor at their side and says, “So…n

Today's Fiction Friday writing prompt from author Arial Burnz hasn't gone up yet (as of the writing of this blog post), so I thought I would go back and find an older one that I missed. So this prompt was the first one I came across, and the instant I read it, the entire scene just came to me. I hope you enjoy it. The prompt was: His eyes were cold and lifeless as he stared at me. “You have no idea who I am, do you?” His eyes are cold and lifeless as he stares at me. “You hav

This week's installment of the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge from my wonderful friend, and fellow author, Arial Burnz, was a little tricky. The prompt was a single sentence: "The last thing I wanted to do was see her again, and yet I headed straight toward her." Once I read it, a storyline began to unfold. A storyline that I had a hard time turning off and letting go. I have to say that participating in this writing challenge has been both a blessing and a curse. A blessi

This week's installment of the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge from my wonderful friend, and fellow author, Arial Burnz was a little bit of a real challenge for me. Why? Well, it's because when I first looked at the image that is the prompt, what I saw was a jewel - a broach, to be exact. And I know that was purely because at the moment, I'm firmly in the middle of writing book 3 of the Rogue Moon Series, a story which involves a very beautiful, very old jewel. Anyway, after

This week's installment of the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge from my sweet funny friend, and fellow author, Arial Burnz was a lot of fun. So much so that really think I might pursue this plot bunny to see where it might lead. Future novella maybe? The start of a stand alone romantic suspense? I don't know, the possibilities are endless! The prompt was this: Your character gets caught in the rain. What happens next? So, here's what happened next... Lightning streaked across

This week's installment of the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge from my sweet funny friend, and fellow author, Arial Burnz was kind of a hoot to write. The prompt was this: Your character wakes up with a splitting headache, and when they look in the mirror ... they don't recognize their reflection. Ok, before we go any further, I'd just like to say that I have no idea where this weird little scenario came from, but what follows is the scene that popped into my head after read

This week's installment of the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge from the lovely and talented Arial Burnz has a very cool mystery twist component to it. We were given two sentences as our prompt, and my imagination went immediately to a someplace a little dark and tragic. I'm kind of worried about what that says of me, but while I ponder it, why don't you read what I've written... It’s been 15 years, but I still regret what happened at the lake that night. It wasn’t supposed t

This week's installment of the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge from the lovely and talented Arial Burnz was a lot of fun to write. The prompt - Number 13 - is one that actually ties into one of my paranormal series, so that was exciting for me. The series in question is called Rogue Moon, and in book 2 of that series we meet the mysterious character known only as The 13th. So, this is what came to me... He was referred to as The 13th, but always only in the hushed tones of p

This week's installment of the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge from the lovely and talented Arial Burnz was a lot of fun to write. As soon as I saw the prompt, the "story" just came to me. I imagine Dana and Garret are two very intense people - probably special ops agents, or mercenaries, or just a pair of badass cops on the street. At any rate, I enjoyed this one. Maybe that means it's time for me to get back to my Romantic Suspense roots. Good thing I've got something in t

This week's installment of the Fiction Friday Writing Challenge from the lovely and talented Arial Burnz was a super hard one for me to wrap my head around. Mainly because I've never written about a witch before! But the surprising thing was that, once I set my timer and began to write, the story just came to me. And I say story (and not idea) because I now have a little plot bunny hopping around up there in my brain. Will anything ever come of it? Who knows. Maybe some day,

So, I started this Fiction Friday thing two weeks ago where I take a writing prompt provided by the lovely Arial Burnz, and run with it. You can click on the links above to check out the first couple of installments with all the wherefores and whys. This week's writing prompt was a little different because it came in the form of a cool image. Check it out... Not sure what I've written does the awesome image any justice, but it came to mind because I have a WIP that involves a

So, I started this Fiction Friday thing last week where I take a writing prompt provided by the lovely Arial Burnz, and run with it. You can click on the links above to check out that first installment with all the wherefores and whys, but read on for this week's Fiction Friday... Love. It was a hell of a way to die. Her vacant gaze fell on the treetops above as a lone tear slid from the corner of her eye down to her ear. She had to admit, it wasn't what she would've expected

Today, I'm participating in a Flash Fiction Challenge by author Arial Burnz. It's something I'd actually like to try and do each Friday because it's fun, it stretches the writing muscles, and it helps me provide steady, weekly content for my readers here on my blog, so I'm excited to try it. The rules are to take the writing prompt Arial gives, and run with it for 5 full minutes. That's it. Set a timer and write for just 5 minutes! So, without further ado, here's today's Flas