Does your hero need to get back in time to take a test and makes a sprint across the colony to get there? Well, rather than forcing the reader to read a "sprint through town" scene whose outcome is predictable, consider just having the character burst into the test room.
Break the next scary task into a five-minute starter step. Momentum is easier than motivation.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger but weighs less?
Write about a birth in your family.
Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure Did through my body wound my mind, You took me thence, and in your house of pleasure A dainty lodging me assigned.
Smile at someone today. It's a two-person mood boost for free.
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Last Wednesday, aliens took over the town of Trumble Hill.
To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English word. BSAINXLEATNTEARS
“Why are you acting like the mob?”
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert...Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrin…
I meet this day with steady hands and an open heart.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Oh, don’t worry, I’ll get smashed before the end of the night. Fermentation sparks a bonfire in my gut, and I’ll grin til dusk, drinking in the dimming evening and observing youth’s sweet e…
“She looks like an alien.”
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