I managed to get to #1 on Wattpad for Fantasy as well as Adventure in a month and a half. After four months, I had 1 Million reads and a year later I had 5 million. I worked really hard and have been very lucky, but I'm sure that following these simple rules helped a lot!
The Random Ramblings Of My Mind, That Make Way Into THE WILD HEART. Do Give It A Read. I'm Sure You Won't Regret. ;)
Dark Night of the Soul is a classic piece of Christian literature. It discusses an experience that seems to come to all of us sooner or later. I wrote two response poems, and so I have posted the original, by St. John of the Cross, and the two responses.
Two dads, five siblings, and goggles! Grim Doyle has always known his life was not exactly "normal", and things get even more curious when he discovers a set of stones that sweep him and his family to the fantasy, steampunk world of Verne - a place they had escaped from years ago. Now that they've returned, Grim and h...
Those stick-figure characters on the backs of cars... The caricatures of moms, dads, kids, pets, jedi, Darth Vaders, zombies, and whatever else. That strange trend that it's just hard to put a finger on what's wrong about it or what's right about it. That stuff is what each of these stories is about.
This started out as a Sonnet, then a trilogy of sonnets, then a 4-parter, and now there are 6 sonnets in the series. I think I've got it all out of my system for a while now. Thanks for your patience everyone. A Sonnet Trilogy in Four--NO, Six! Parts. It was a trilogy, but it was missing something so I added another...
This book contains a couple of sonnets of mine. One is meta - a sonnet about sonnets. The other is an example that I will show through eight drafts of how it was composed. This illustrates my method for writing poetry. There are lots of other methods, but here you get to see one of my pieces through various iteratio...
*5 years ago* “...as of today everyone that fits the required age group will be moved to our housing unit we’ve set for you. Say goodbye to your family for posting starts tomorrow. Happy writing.” The statement that started it all. Mayor Oswald decided on a new law. One where you have to write everyday. *** In this pa...
I'm CJ Lyons. And I'm a writer.... If you also need a twelve-step program to stop writing, then you've come to the right place. I don't like rules. I don't like people telling me what to do. I don't like complex formulas or graphs or charts that I have to consult because that's the "right way" to create a compelling s...
YOU WANNA FIGHT? FIGHT ME! Or we could have a cup of tea and a biscuit if you prefer. Ever found it hard to get to grips with how to put together a fight scene, or a battle sequence? This guide runs you through the basics, talks about different styles of fighting and weaponry, how to put together fight scenes, plan ou...
[Coming-of-age, Romance, Existential, Japan] Seiji and Aoi have been inseparable childhood friends and eventually, high school sweethearts. Believing in naive dreams and love, all seems well until a tragedy separates them with a chasm of frozen time. As one struggles with the aftermath, the world moves on, while the o...
“How can I be reasonable? To me, our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.” -W. Somerset Maugham (c) mockingjayde 2013
It's basically what the title says... I write to vent, so don't expect it all to make perfect sense.
There are hundreds of fantastic books about writing for hopeful authors to choose from, but most of them are boring, complicated, and bogged down by filler. This little book is brief, straight forward, and easy to understand. I hope it will serve as an easy-to-read manual to help serious writers perfect their craft. I...
chick: am i a people? chicken: no, you're a chicken chick: do chickens come from people? chicken: no. chickens come from eggs. chick: are eggs born? chicken: no. eggs are laid chick: are people laid? chicken: some are. others are chicken anyway, these are some of my eggs...
Welcome to Dare To Look Into My Eyes. Here you'll find yourself sucked in a whirl of poems that will keep you wondering. Maybe even confused. Are you ready? Be prepared to enter my eyes! It's for me to know and for you to find out. That's if you dare to read and look through my eyes. Bet you'll never guess what it mea...
