Forum: CrystalWizard

I'm doing the final edits on book six of the Sojourn Chronicels - World's End - and though I would post an excerpt from it. If anyone wants to get...

The last time I posted a poem, I got the following commentary on it: 'The problem with rhyming poetry, is that it often comes off as forced or...

Fifteen sheep and a big fat rat all ran away from a small, skinny cat. They jumped over logs. They jumped over trees. They tripped over hogs....

Don't tell, show. What that means too often is "don't narrate that!" How do you get over narrating something? Here's an exercise that'll help....

Alain stood in the shadows, watching as the sheriff escort Raven and Glorthal out of the bar, then ducked under a nearby table. Two large men were...

Hi CW, I was visiting your site and was very impressed with you artwork. You mentioned you do commissions. Is it priced on a piece by piece basis...

Every author, editor, English teacher and weekend writer has a page of writing tips, so I might as well jump into the fray. There are two main types,...

There's a time 'n place fer ever thin' and this weren't neither. Settin' outside in th? dark on a stump in th? middle of east Texas woods ain't my...

I've finally gotten a chance to sit down and at least the start of a new website. You can find it here: http://cyberwizardproductions.com All...

Comments are welcome. =============================================================== Chapter One Darkness covered the city, flowing down the...

Chapter One Quhi soared into the air, banked to the right and circled back toward the ruined outpost in a wide arch. His sharp eyes searched the...

Everything changes. The sun rises and sets, the earth rotates; people get older, language morphs, and technology advances. Everything undergoes a...

An evil giant caught some thieves breaking into his home. He captured them and stuck them in a cage. While he was trying to decide what to do with...

'Where've you been?' 'Out 'n the garden, sprayin' tomato worms.' Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to...

Y?skelkal wrinkled his nose, sniffed the air and concentrated on the faint scents floating on the breath of wind. Food, he thought after a moment....

The sun shone upon a small patch of tilled earth, baking it to a crisp. Marigolds blossoming around the edges wilted and drooped. An old woman...

I found it sitting on my desk, staring at me with eyes as black as the night between stars. Silent. Motionless. Evil. Large pink ears protruded from...

(comments and crits welcome) I first saw the terrarium sitting in the display window of World Imports. It was perched on a pedestal on one side...

Everyone here, be it readers or authors, are very creative so let's play a game. We'll all write a story together, one sentence at a time. Here...

Adventure stories aren't nearly as much fun when you live them as when you write about them. I've been absent because an adventure story landed in my...

Some time back I wrote a story called The Forest Friends and the Ogress. A kids story. Recently a very talented artist I got to know from a writers...

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