Author Archive: tyunglebower
Fuel for Writing: Stealing the Hat.
Most writers have heard the old formula when it comes to fiction. Put your character up a tree, throw a bunch of rocks at him, and then get him out of the tree. How succinct and clever. And void of creativity. All right, I know I am not being totally fair. The message behind this metaphor is …
How Sprout Gets It Right, and How Writers Can Too.
I don’t watch Sprout much. (Surprise.) Until this weekend it was just something I would pass through while channel surfing, stopping on it for a minute or two on occasion due to the oddness of the visual. Yet my sister and her daughter (my niece, of course) spent this weekend here. My niece is nine months old …
Intervention?
Scintilla’s Last Day Prompt: Talk about a time when you intervened. What prompted you? Did you regret it? Don’t worry. I do have an example of my intervening which I will share. But I felt the need to address a few things beforehand. To begin with, the very concept of my intervening is a tricky one. …
Pet Peeves.
Scintilla Day 10: Pet peeves. We’ve all got ’em. What are yours? Write about a time when you experienced one so vividly that we all join your army of defiance. I’ll just say to start off that the whole “army of defiance” thing may be a bit much. Plus, there have been no particular incidents of …
23 Characters
Day Nine Scintilla Prompt: Write a list of 23. That sounded simple enough at first. Until I realized my first few ideas would require quite a bit more time than I have to come up with 23 entries. Then I thought I had a winner-23 songs I’ve always wanted to sing live. Once I started …
Ty Unglebower 