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All Hallow's Tales 2016 - WINNERS!
This contest is generously sponsored by prize donors and:
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
THE RESULTS ARE IN!
Thanks VERY much to everyone who entered a story or poem. The judges have completed their work, so let's see how the corpse crumbles...
PROSE RESULTS
FIRST RUNNER UP:
Spider Legs by Tobaeus (https://www.deviantart.com/tobaeus)
SECOND RUNNER UP:
The silent watcher by JessaMar (https://www.deviantart.com/jessamar)
POETRY RESULTS
FIRST RUNNER UP:
The Poppet Ballade by SinistrosePhosphate (https://www.deviantart.com/sinistrosephosphate)
SECOND RUNNER UP:
A Higher Purpose, Underground by BlackBowfin (https://www.deviantart.com/blackbowfin)
EACH SECOND RUNNER-UP WINS:
250 Points each from communityrelations (https://www.deviantart.com/communityrelations)
100 Points each fro
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From Super Speed to Slow-Mo - Style and Pacing
Use Writing Style to Control Your Story's Pace
By ~C-A-Harland (https://www.deviantart.com/c-a-harland) C-A-Harland (https://www.deviantart.com/c-a-harland) and :iconilluminara: illuminara (https://www.deviantart.com/illuminara)
Last time, we talked about the big things that affect the pace of your story, but now we’re going to focus on some of the smaller details the control the pace of your narrative in a bigger way than you might realize. Everything from sentence structure to dialogue influence pace on a micro level, so they’re important to consider while you’re crafting prose. This is because your writing style is the lens through with your readers experience the story. It’s the user interface design of storytelling,
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214 deviations
Literature
Stronger than concrete
My father was a strange cadaver-like creature in the eyes of the townspeople. Some days I swear he comes out dripping with formaldehyde but passes it off as wax when asked. But he was a damn good spotter of a storm.
“It's coming,” he cried.
He stood in the square, pointing, and following his shaky finger we saw the dark clouds mass in the horizon. The nearby beach quivered with anticipation. Memories of past hurricanes flushed through the crowd, and soon after the murmurs began.
“What do we do?”
“Remember how Katrina wiped New Orleans off the map?”
“We’ve barely rebuilt.”
“Frie
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All Hallow's Tales 2016 - WINNERS!
This contest is generously sponsored by prize donors and:
%CRLiterature (https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature) :iconcommunityrelations:
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
THE RESULTS ARE IN!
Thanks VERY much to everyone who entered a story or poem. The judges have completed their work, so let's see how the corpse crumbles...
PROSE RESULTS
FIRST RUNNER UP:
Spider Legs by Tobaeus (https://www.deviantart.com/tobaeus)
SECOND RUNNER UP:
The silent watcher by JessaMar (https://www.deviantart.com/jessamar)
POETRY RESULTS
FIRST RUNNER UP:
The Poppet Ballade by SinistrosePhosphate (https://www.deviantart.com/sinistrosephosphate)
SECOND RUNNER UP:
A Higher Purpose, Underground by BlackBowfin (https://www.deviantart.com/blackbowfin)
EACH SECOND RUNNER-UP WINS:
250 Points each from communityrelations (https://www.deviantart.com/communityrelations)
100 Points each fro
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clay faves
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good-lookin grub
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Literature
Auditor of the Ashes
"I am an incalculable rhythm of distinction."
Those words being uttered from the other side of the cubicle wall were not expected, but they could not be labeled as "unexpected" in my inventory of daily expectations. "Is that so, Rod?"
"I am a paradigm of undiscovered configurations."
This second phrase fell on me as the first. "Well, that may be true, but you know how much they love it when you talk to me over the cube wall like that. I hope this audit project hasn't finally pushed you over the edge."
"I am a master of untamed neuropathic swings."
It was that statement, I see now in hindsight's tremendous focus, when I began to worry.
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