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5 Powerful Words that Convey Power + Writing Prompts

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Power words can be ridiculously useful if used strategically and well.

Make them well placed.

Use them at the right moments.

Use them to get your reader from one thought to the next without getting bored or lolled out.

The use of power words is simple so keep the application of them simple as well.

To write a stupendous amazing power creative enlightening sentence like this is a little over the top.

But if you simply just use one or two in a thoughtful enlightening way you’ll be better off.

Power words can be used to help readers feel the situation we are painting with words.

They can be used to help readers take action about what they read.

We want to entice our readers to read more. Use power words at pivotal moments to do just that and more.

We don’t have to use a massive amount of power words to get our point across and drive home the idea.

We just have to use the right words at the right moments that seal the deal and really make the occasion.

Be a smart writer and take advantage of every word.

Write powerful words when appropriate to trigger an emotional response from your reader.

You can write powerful words instead of dull words to incite a desirous psychological reaction in your reader while you have their attention.

Write power words to give your reader specific feelings about characters and events.

Use the powerful word in a natural way that comes across organic and smoothly. Do not force it. Just let it flow.

Power words are good for pivotal dialogue moments. They are good to consider for fiction as well as non-fiction.

Use power words to take your reader’s attention.

Draw their eyes and attention to where you want it the most.

Wake the reader up from zoning out while they are reading your piece.

Use power words strategically to get them from idea to idea.

Use simple power words that are easy to understand but that pack a punch compared to other boring words.

Write powerful words to keep your sentences interesting to your reader.

Don’t lose them by not drawing their attention back from losing focus.

When doing freelance writing projects use power words to write better-converting headlines and subject lines.

In blogging use power words in the titles and subheadings.

In emails use them in headlines and subject lines.

Don’t overdo it. Don’t try to force many into any one sentence unless it calls for it.

Hopefully, this fast short post helps you think through some of your own writing and where you can incorporate simple power words in a meaningful, natural, and effective way.

5 Powerful Words that Convey Power + Writing Prompts

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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5 Powerful Words that Convey Power + Writing Prompts

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Writing Prompts | 5 Hostile Settings for Your Fictional World

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

Writing Prompts | 5 Hostile Settings for Your Fictional World

1. Alcoholism

Living with a drunk is an easy way to create a hostile situation.

Is your character married to an angry drunk?

Do they abuse the family?

Do they harbor resentment toward the other spouse?

Is the alcoholic lying?

2. Drug abuse

Drug abuse runs rampant through many communities and because of the environment, situations can become hostile quickly.

Is your main character an undercover cop in a drug engrossed community?

Are your main characters pushing drugs themselves?

Do they war with other factions in the area?

Is the home full of several drug-abusing family members?

Do situations become violent in the home because someone runs a drug business through the home?

3. Civil War

Anytime wars break out in the country between differing parties things become hostile and don’t let down until one side crushes the other.

Does your character find themselves among civil unrest after years of peace?

Do they lose loved ones and friends?

Do they choose a side or stay neutral?

How far do they work their way up the ranks?

What is the civil unrest about?

4. Spy games

If you are a spy you are always in constant tension of threat.

What perils does your spy endure?

Do they get caught?

Are they able to escape?

Do they ever really find any valuable information?

5. Persecution

Is there persecution of religion?

Is there persecution of a race?

Is there persecution of a certain type of look or personality type?

IS the persecution local or global?

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Put your characters into hostile situations to create tension and interest for your story.

If nothing ever goes wrong for them, they don’t have very interesting lives.

Follow the natural consequences of the setting to make problems for your characters to overcome

The more organic it is, the more depth the fictional story will carry with it in a natural way.

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Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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5 Powerful Words that Show Surprise + Writing Prompts

March 30, 2020March 31, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

5 Powerful Words that Show Surprise + Writing Prompts

1. Shock

I was utterly shocked! I had never seen anything like it. It walked up to and I stood deathly still. It smelled me. I thought for sure my life was over. But then something very strange happened that I still have a hard time explaining to this day.

2. Startled

“Hey, Jane!”

“Ahhh!”

“What?!”

“Oh, nothing! You just startled me is all!”

3. Bewilderment

I was dumbfounded. Struck by complete bewilderment. What had led him to do that? And today of all days.

Did he not know that would be the dumbest thing he could do today? And yet he did it anyway?

After all, it was Valentine’s day. Who does that on Valentine’s day?

4. Disbelief

I stood there in disbelief. How could I have known the events that would follow? How could I foresee the monumental change that about to befall our entire town?

5. Astonishment

As the pie slowly dripped down my face, I couldn’t hide my rage and astonishment. I didn’t want to. All I wanted to do was find another item of sticky dessert and smush it all in her hair and face and dress. The stickier the better. Oh and the stains, I wanted to find one that would stain everything she owned. I wanted to dump a truckload of pie into her new car and house, but what I did next surprised even me.

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5 Powerful Words that Show Surprise + Writing Prompts

Power words can be used to help readers feel the situation we are painting with words.

They can be used to help readers take action about what they read.

We want to entice our readers to read more. Use power words at pivotal moments to do just that and more.

We don’t have to use a massive amount of power words to get our point across and drive home the idea.

We just have to use the right words at the right moments that seal the deal and really make the occasion.

Be a smart writer and take advantage of every word.

Write powerful words when appropriate to trigger an emotional response from your reader.

You can write powerful words instead of dull words to incite a desirous psychological reaction in your reader while you have their attention.

Write power words to give your reader specific feelings about characters and events.

Use the powerful word in a natural way that comes across organic and smoothly. Do not force it. Just let it flow.

Power words are good for pivotal dialogue moments. They are good to consider for fiction as well as non-fiction.

5 Powerful Words that Show Surprise + Writing Prompts

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Use power words to take your reader’s attention.

Draw their eyes and attention to where you want it the most.

Wake the reader up from zoning out while they are reading your piece.

Use power words strategically to get them from idea to idea.

Use simple power words that are easy to understand but that pack a punch compared to other boring words.

Write powerful words to keep your sentences interesting to your reader.

Don’t lose them by not drawing their attention back from losing focus.

When doing freelance writing projects use power words to write better-converting headlines and subject lines.

In blogging use power words in the titles and subheadings.

In emails use them in headlines and subject lines.

Don’t overdo it. Don’t try to force many into any one sentence unless it calls for it.

Hopefully, this fast short post helps you think through some of your own writing and where you can incorporate simple power words in a meaningful, natural, and effective way.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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5 Abhorrent Settings for Your Fictional World

March 22, 2020March 30, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

5 Abhorrent Settings for Your Fictional World

Corrupt Politics

Why nations give politicians so much power is beyond understanding, but with that much power and money up for grabs greedy and power-hungry people come out of the shadows to take their place in the hierarchy.

Unjust Laws

In the series “Reign” the King is pressured into creating a law that the citizens of France have to declare publicly what religion they hold. The Catholic church uses this public knowledge to abuse and torture people that proclaim to hold a different faith than the Catholic church holds.

Limited Rights

In history, the U.S. citizens that had recently left England were being demanded to pay taxes to a government that wasn’t representing them, which was limiting their rights because it took their wealth and gave them nothing in return.

Violent Extremist

History is full of violent extremists who took the law into their own hands to try to change history by the shedding of blood.

Violent Mobs

Any peaceful protest has tension. This tension can easily spill over into a violent mob if provoked.

Violent extremists often look for ways to provoke and manipulate the mob into becoming violent for their cause.

Write about abhorrent world settings in your fictional story to keep your reader intrigued and on the edge of their seat. Writing story settings that are in turmoil is a good way to keep your reader interested in what will happen next.

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Writing Prompts | 5 Fictional Characters You Need to Know About for Your Own Writing Prompts

March 20, 2020March 22, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ 1 Comment

Writing Prompts | 5 Fictional Characters You Need to Know About for Your Own Writing Prompts

George Baily from (It’s a Wonderful Life)

What a classic. Every year this movie gets played in the homes of many Christmas lovers.

What do you need to know about George Baily?

His depth of character. We see George as a grumpy old sod on the outside, but time and time again no matter what hardships come his way he does what’s right for others and sacrifices his own desires.

Readers love a character that is self-sacrificing.

Jason Bourne (Bourne Movies)

Jason Bourne is a vigilante. We love him because he’s smooth and suave, but he’s also a mystery.

Characters that come into his life are constantly in mortal danger, but with Bourne, they feel safe.

He’s a protector and savior, but he’s also a killer.

This man is deadly and can kill most anyone he sets his mind to, but he helps the weak always.

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Peter Quill (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Peter is a pig of a man, but when the poop hits the fan you’ll wish he was on your side.

He’s mostly a joke at all times until lasers start flying out of ships then he’ll save your life.

Audiences love this type of character because they seem not to take themselves as seriously as others.

Spiderman

Peter Parker is loved because he has two personalities.

He’s a loser nerd on one side and a crime-fighting mastermind on the other.

These personalities play well together for readers because readers love the idea that something inside them is secretly capable of coming out and saving their world.

Aside from being able to laugh at peter, he is also extremely vulnerable with the audience form the start.

Make your character vulnerable yet strong and your reader will eat that up.

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Everyone loves Darth Vader, but why?

He’s evil and not that interesting as far as he shows up kills people, is always mad, and then walks away.

But for some reason, we root for him and want him to be good.

This is because he plays the father figure.

Give your reader a father figure that we all can look up to in a weird way even if they betray us a couple of times and every time they turn back and look like they are going to do good and love us, we will take the bait hook, line, and sinker.

Give your reader a father figure.

Study these fictional characters and ones like them to give yourself good writing prompts to work from.

Get your own ideas about character types and how you want to introduce your character at first and how you want your audience to feel about them as you write.

Throw them a curveball with betrayal and later forgiveness.

Most of your characters should be capable of doing good acts and evil acts.

Hopefully, you can use these characters and ones like them to make dynamic characters of your own.

Hope this helps!

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Writing Prompts | 5 Heroic Character Types for Writing Prompts

March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

Writing Prompts | 5 Heroic Character Types for Writing Prompts

The Medieval Knight

Riding horses, swords, and bows, heavy chain mail armor are some of the things that come to mind when thinking of knights and medieval heroes.

Many heroes have been knights and there is plenty of reading you can do to come up with ideas on how to write them and what to have them do.

Mythical Heroes

Think Hercules and Achilles. These ancient stories depict heroes of unnatural strength fighting off ancient creatures of horror.

If your hero is mythical she may have a mother or father that is an ancient Greek god or Roman god.

Maybe they will be helping armies crush other armies or maybe they will be earning their right to live among the gods.

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Old Warriors

These would be warriors wearing animal skins, leather, and pelts.

They carry axes and drink mead.

They might sail a Viking ship or herd sheep.

But the most dangerous place to be is within throwing ax range.

The Super

Today these types of heroes are much more common and run rampant in our movies, T.V. shows, and books.

Supers gain their powers through accidents involving things like gamma radiation.

Romance heroes

Heroes of romance usually don’t have unnatural strength or powers, but they have big hearts.

There usually love involved and they would fight the world to save their lover.

Let their love for another make them not afraid to die and able to run across the entire world and back.

Study fictional heroes that have already been written and learn how to create one that hasn’t been made yet.

When making heroes of our own we can use types like these or try to make our own.

Use love, loss, and betrayal to motive heroes to do amazing and interesting feats.

Every hero has a journey, you get to decide where it starts and where it goes.

Hopefully, you can use these hero types and ones like them to make dynamic hero characters of your own.

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Writing Prompts | 5 Character Stereotypes for Writing Prompts and Storytelling

March 19, 2020March 20, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

5 Character Stereotypes for Writing Prompts and Storytelling

Whether they’ll admit it or not, storytellers have been using character stereotypes for ages. Some don’t even know they are doing. As storytellers, we can learn from these stereotypes and use them as writing prompts.

The Rebel

The rebel is a favorite of readers and audiences alike.

Think the vigilante, the revolutionary. Think of a character that can’t stand the injustice of leaders and wants nothing more than to take matters into their own hands.

A good rebel is one that goes against the grain but is able to rally a group willingly behind them to follow them, even to death.

The Dreamer

The dreamer is a character of vision. They have an extraordinary drive to create their dream and their vision and they will give up for nothing. Their dream is their ultimate goal and ultimate end.

They are constantly looking for ways to make their vision be the reality.

Some dreamers are willing to do this at the expense of others, but most do it no matter what obstacles they face.

Other characters look up to them and don’t understand their vision, but find it noble that they have one even if they think their vision is unattainb]able.

The thoughts of others do not stop them from pushing forward in their dream.

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The Teacher

The teacher is a character that comes into the protagonist’s life at the opportune moment.

They guide them down the right path in a moment when they are otherwise unnoteworthy or vulnerable.

They are not entirely a father figure as much as a wise guide or sage.

They seek knowledge relentlessly and use it to help themselves and others.

The Romantic

The Romantic suddenly falls in love and that love is the overarching power that motivates all their actions.

The romantic will do anything for love.

They will even sacrifice themself for the person they love.

They seek love and maybe just the feeling more than the person. Some romantic seek pleasure and some seek people. What is noticeable about the romantic is their unending obsession with their own love.

Think Romeo and Juliet.

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The Comedian

Think of a court jester, but by choice. The comedian wants to bring happiness and laughter to the crowd. The more people they can get to laugh, the better.

They want to bring happiness to others’ lives in the hopes that it brings ease and happiness into their own life.

Their ultimate goal is to lighten up others’ lives and not be too serious about anything ever.

Study these stereotypes that have already been written and learn how to create one that hasn’t been made yet.

When making characters of our own we can use stereotypes like these or try to make our own.

Use love, loss, and betrayal to make your characters’ journeys interesting.

Every character has a journey, you get to decide where it starts and where it goes.

Hopefully, you can use these character stereotypes and ones like them to make dynamic characters of your own.

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10 Great Fantasy Writing Prompts

February 4, 2020March 5, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ 2 Comments

10 Great Fantasy Writing Prompts To Help Inspire your Writing Today

Write about a family that is magical but after 400 generations of magic, they birth one unmagical child.
Write a character who is a kleptomaniac (compulsive thief). One day they wake up to realize every object they’ve ever stolen has come to life.
Write about a child who has always blamed their mistakes on an imaginary person. On the child’s 30th birthday, they awake to find this imaginary person they blamed everything on has come to life.
Write about a character who picks up a book written in a language they’ve never heard of before. Strangely, they can read and understand every word.
Write about a country that hasn’t been discovered yet.
Write about a species of bugs that only come above ground once every 1,200 years. Their arrival is completely unexpected, and their intentions are truly sinister.
Your character’s sister mysteriously vanishes. The quest to find her is one that reveals many secrets about the family’s dark past.
The country is in a panic. The reason? Magic, an art lost over 600 years ago, has been discovered in the slums.
While walking in an unknown part of the forest, your character discovers a cave with a strange egg inside. When they visit the egg again, they instead find a baby beast they never knew existed. Now it’s up to them to raise it.
Write about a character that makes a wish on a star. The next day they realize their wish has come true. The bad part? They worded their wish wrong… very, very wrong.

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Great fantasy writing prompts can help you flex your creative skills and improve your writing style. By stepping out of your comfort zone, you may discover that you have found your new passion! You can expand your wheelhouse of imagination by starting with a simple idea and expanding on it. You are the captain AND the navigator and can steer your story in any way you please 🙂

Fantasy writing gives you the freedom to make the story as wild as you want. There are no rules and no limitations. You can create the perfect world, or take the opposite approach and build a world no human could ever survive.

Finding daily writing prompts like these can help overcome writer’s block and get the creative juices flowing!

As long as you can follow your imagination and let your words flow then there is no telling where you and your characters might end up. Half the fun is going on the journey with your characters and no one will help them get there without you. So grab your pencil or laptop and take that first step out their front door that ends with a world of possibilities.

Whether it’s non-fiction or fiction writing prompts, either can work to help a writer break out of the same toolbox they may be working in. Sometimes it can be helpful to find a good writing prompts generator but google and Pinterest work just as well, and Reddit writing prompts too.

Take your time, look up some fun writing prompts, and take the leap. Start writing your own fantasy story today. You can start with one of these prompts, or combine a few. Who knows? You just might be surprised with where you land.

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4 Tips How to Write your Character Hitting Rock Bottom

December 17, 2019March 1, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

How to write your character hitting rock bottom.

How do we get our characters from introduction to “all hope it’s lost”?

That is the question we should be concerned about in any story.

If the story is going to be interesting, the stakes need to be great.

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We need our characters to be in such a dark place that our reader believes it.

Our reader needs to be concerned enough about their bleak predicament that they are curious enough to keep reading to find out how their situation revolves.

Whether our character has tried everything and failed miserably, or they have been pushed so far into a corner that impending doom lurks imminent.

If we as writers are going to pull this off and do it well we are going to need to have a strategic game plan in mind.

# 1 How to Write your Character Hitting Rock Bottom: the stakes gotta be high

Don’t try to paint your character into a dark corner nobody cares about.

“If I don’t pick up my dry cleaning by 5 they are going to fine me an extra 25 cents.”

Nobody cares.

“If I don’t find a way to give them the ransom of 10 million they are going to kill my wife and child.”

Okay, that sounds concerning.

# 2 How to Write your Character Hitting Rock Bottom: Consider making the character self-destructive

Nothing smacks you in the face more than the moment you realize, “it’s completely and only my fault that I’m in this mess.”

Make your character choose several to a dozen terrible choices and spiral into the metaphorical toilet, all while your audiences watch and wince with every poor decision.

And then, when everything smashes your character in the face and there is absolutely no going back, give your character a flashback moment where they realize that everything they are going through is completely and utterly their own fault.

Nothing says rock-bottom more than “I did this to myself.”

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# 3 How to Write your Character Hitting Rock Bottom: Make sure your readers believe that all hope is lost.

How to Write your Character Hitting Rock Bottom

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For your character to hit absolute rock bottom, all hope must be lost.

But it MUST be believable.

Imagine you’re sitting with your reader and telling them the story of your character and you tell them, “all hope was lost.”

Can your reader say, “wait a minute! What about this?”

You can’t have any question in your reader’s mind whether the character has a possible viable way out.

Your reader needs to be thinking, “oh crap. How are they going to get out of this?”

Then you know you’ve written it right.

Don’t leave them any reasonable doubt.

# 4 How to Write your Character Hitting Rock Bottom: Consider Making Your Protagonist Give Up.

A part of hitting rock bottom is the ultimate temptation to call it quits and say “that’s it! I’m done!”

How many stories have you seen where the main character hits a brick wall and then decides enough is enough, I’m not trying anymore, I can’t win and I’m tired of trying, I can’t go on?

How many times have you personally hit that place where you just can’t take it anymore at a sport or at work or at home and you just quit?

This is a beautiful moment you can create for your reader to jump into the life of your character, where they can watch that character say “no more! That’s it! I’m done!” and the reader can say “I feel you.” or they can be saying “no! You can’t quit now! You are soooo close!”

Either of these feelings and you can know that you are giving your reader the emotions you want them to have to enjoy your writing and want to read further.

And you can use simple dialogue to give your reader these feelings.

Have you ever been reading a story and the character says, “That’s it! I can’t take it anymore! I’m done with this whole thing! I’m done with you and you and you and you. I am out…”

Okay…so maybe they didn’t say exactly that. That was a bit over the top. But think of a story where your character gave up and left the scene with the other characters saying things like, “No! Wait! You can’t quit now! After all we’ve gone through, you can’t just give up now!”

Maybe you used a secondary character that was skeptical of the main character’s ability to finish the task and accomplish the goal. And only after the main character voices their immediate resignation to the quest that the secondary character finally believes in them and brings them back from hitting rock bottom.

That’s all for now.

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37+ Writing Prompts for Your Creative Enjoyment

November 23, 2019March 24, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

37+ Writing Prompts for Your Creative Enjoyment

As writers, we need to be able to reach out into the world around us and find creative motives.

Writers hit writer’s block and need help outside of our own heads to be able to keep moving forward in our writing.

Use these writing prompts to help with finding creativity for your novels and creativity.

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Writing Prompts for Your Creative Enjoyment

Common! I don’t have all day! Pick up your weapon and face me!
He hates me! I knew it!
I didn’t know what to do so I hid in the bathroom and prayed!
I had never seen anything so beautiful!
The treasure glimmered in the firelight and reflected in her eyes.
Where were you last night?
Why am I the only one that thinks this is insane?
Tell me again, were there two of you or four of you?
I told him I could only give him a ride a couple of miles down the road, but when he pulled a gun on me I said, where do you need to go? He was pretty polite after that.

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I should have seen them coming. I can’t believe I missed that.
So is this bathroom still a crime scene or can I?
I’m headed to the scene. You stay here and check the database for hits in the last week.
He remembers your lies.
Hey, do you know where Tom is? I saw some people walking around his place last night after dark.
Woah she let you take her truck? I didn’t ask
He’s got the brain of a pigeon. He can’t do much damage.
Did your cellmate say anything about his sentencing?
What did you say the guard said?
Libraries are not rooms full of books. They are rooms full of worlds, galaxies, and opportunities.
So should I book you for fraud or accessory to murder or both?
What is going on? Why are you in my house?
OW! I told you I don’t know anything! Why do you keep slapping me?
How did she take the news?
You okay? I haven’t seen you this worried since you lost your ring?
Call me when this is all over. If it ever is over. Don’t bother calling if it’s not.

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Wow, manners. What’s gotten into you?
Why does she bite when you try to feed her?
Stay with me! Stay with me! Don’t pass out! Stay with me!
He was wearing a cowboy hat and boots and a bow tie.
I didn’t know what to say so I just stared at him. That’s when he jumped. It was the worst day of my life.
People are never there when you need em huh? Aw just give me another whiskey
Is he dead? Did he know it was me?
It nicked your artery so you almost didn’t make it.
I’ve never made a real decision in my life. Every decision has always been made for me.
Keep your eye on her until we know what the rest of the gang is up to.
No no no. Don’t say the “C” word. I didn’t want you to see me as the “cancer kid.” I wanted you to know me for me, while I still had some time left.
I don’t want them to think we are organizing our stories. Let’s not be seen together for a while.
This steak isn’t cooked! At all! I want to speak to your manager!
Underneath the salad leaves something was stirring and vibrating. And then a cockroach crawled out missing one of its legs.
In its presentation this is perfect, but in its execution, it is a complete and utter failure.
I wish you wouldn’t have allowed your curiosity to control you.
Now that you know my secret, I’m not quite sure what to do with you yet.
I can’t go home! I can’t go anywhere!
I told her not to look down, but you know how it goes.

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