Have you noticed since Global Warming took hold that all the snowmen look kind of angry?
There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.
She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important. " Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.
Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.
Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.
If you don't like vampire games, don't play
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.