Supporting Cast (Dynamic):
Maybe it's your protagonist, maybe it's somebody else, but you're very likely to need somebody to change in an important way during the course of your novel. Who will be your dynamic characters? Why do they need to evolve? How will they change? What will make them change?
Butterfly Rides
"Yeeeeeeee haw!" she screamed as the butterfly descended into the irrigation canal ...
Sword Fighting
Describe a time nature got the best of you. Tell us about your last fishing trip, or your last sword fight. Describe what you like to do on boats.
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Sword Fighting By Wolfgang Glinka
The Chinese straight sword, both edges razor sharp, caught the sunlight from its position on the wall.
He loved it...his pride and joy.
People didn't see him as a swordsman..more of a quiet businesman type..suited to a rolled umbrella maybe but never such a beautiful, seductive and lethal weapon.
Seductive?
Well yes. He loved its shining beauty with its promise of power to the man who could wield it.
What else did he love about his life?
He was bored in his job. He had shown promise in his attention to detail but promotion soon became unlikely. He did not have the imaginary flair to do anything but obey orders.
Or so his bosses thought.
No he did not love his job.
Did he love his wife?
Well, he thought he did when they met in front of the altar all those years ago to exchange solemn vows and shiny golden rings.
Quite soon though they settled into separate lives, she was bored by his obsession for weaponry and he lost interest in trying to convert her.
No he didn't love his wife.
Children might have made a difference but that was not meant to be.
No it was his Chinese straight sword that he loved, glistening in his hand as he practised with it in the small back yard, beckoning him from its place on the wall, haunting his dreams.
The right, tiny move of the wrist sent a vibration through the blade setting it humming with its own voice. Like a dog released from its leash, the weapon was showing him its excitement, its readiness for the kill.
He was so good at it. Setting it into action with graceful turns of the arms and the waist
and elegantly smooth movements of his legs.
They were as one, the man and his sword. They knew and respected each other; they too had exchanged solemn vows before the high altar of his desire.
No boredom in this marriage though...only mutual, constant and all knowing love.
It was however a secret love. Not celebrated by congregations of hymn singing guests or blessed by holy men. No. This love was hidden, forbidden and oh so seductive.
Every day, that flick of the wrist, that twist of the arm, the hum from the blade and the grim smile on his face. This was their consummation, passionate, obsessive and concealed from the unknowing world.
That was about to change.
Some smiling god of warfare or some ancient Chinese war lord, no doubt, was smiling on him that night.
The faint sound of breaking glass, the muffled footsteps, the whispered voices, they alerted the fiery weapon on the wall and the atuned ears of its master upstairs in troubled sleep next to a slumbering wife.
Then it was done.
It was his only chance.
Swiftly, silently and joyfully, he met his fate.
Two dead burglers, an hysterical wife, a company of stern faced policemen, nothing could wipe that smile from his face.
Wolfgang Glinka
EEEK! a Swordfish
[B] Get on the boat and head out to the [E6] sea.
[B] Sunshine and salt and you in your biki- [E6] ni.
[B] Toss a hook out behind the boat for [E6] me.
[B] Open a beer, enjoy God's day for [E6] free.
[F#6] Eeek a swordfish
[E6] jumped on the boat.
[F#6] Watch yourself
[E6] he'll stab you in the throat.
Tou- [B] che
[B] Didn't want to fuss with a slimy wiggly [E6] fish.
[B] Barbeque the beast, give me dessert on a [E6] dish.
[B] A little bit of sweat and a deep dark tan is my [E6] wish.
[B] Being Hemingway instead brings me an- [E6] guish.
[F#6] Eeek a swordfish
[E6] will give you nasty cuts.
[F#6] Poke you in your butt
[E6] or stab you in the guts.
Tou- [B] che
Hey knotty ... i failed on my goal in Sept to write everyday, so I'm going to try again for October. thanks for doing these topics they really help me.
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