Reluctant I Author: _beetle_/beetle_comma_the Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: None Rating: NC-17 for implied violence/torture/subversion Word count: Approx. 700 Notes/Warnings: TRIGGERS, mentions of torture, dismemberment, insanity, and death. Summary: Written for the prompt(s): Write a first-person story in which you use the first person pronoun (I or me or my) only two times—but keep the I somehow important to the narrative you’re constructing. The point of this exercise is to imagine a narrator who is less interested in himself than in what he is observing. You can make your narrator someone who sees an interesting event in which he is not necessarily a participant. Or you can make him self-effacing, yet a major participant in the events related. It is very important in this exercise to make sure your reader is not surprise, forty of fifty words into the piece, to realize that this is a first-person narration. Show us quickly who is observing the scene. 600 words.
Your Day Author: _beetle_/beetle_comma_the Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: None Rating: G Word count: Approx. 750 Notes/Warnings: None. Summary: Written for the prompt(s): Write a fragment of a story that is made up entirely of imperative commands. Do this, do that; contemplate the rear end of the woman who is walking out of your life. This exercise will be a sort of second-person narration (a you is implied in the imperative). 500 words.
I Am You Author: _beetle_/EthanMB365 Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: None. Rating: PG-13 Word count: 700 Notes/Warnings: Allusion to genocide. Summary: Written for the prompt(s): I am aware that. . . .
Feathers (1/?) Author: _beetle_/Rachel EB Fiction/EthanMB365 Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: M/M Rating: R Word count: Approx. 950 Notes/Warnings: None. Summary: Just snow flurries, I thought dismissively. Then: Wait a minute—
Flats and Flaws Author: _beetle_/Rachel EB Fiction/EthanMB365 Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: M/M Rating: PG-13 Word count: Approx. 900 Notes/Warnings: None. Summary: While on a road-trip, a couple comes across more than one kind of bump in their road.
Kindred Spirits: Once Bitten, Twice Shy Author: _beetle_/Rachel EB Fiction/EthanMB365 Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: M/M Rating: Hard R Word count: Approx. 2,700 Notes/Warnings: None. Summary: Written for the prompt: Your characters are meeting somewhere. One arrives before the other. The first to arrive has an encounter with someone else, and when their partner arrives they take what they see, and perhaps hear the wrong way. How does this play out in the relationship? Will it break them up? You get to decide if this makes or breaks your couple. We are going to use both characters for POV this lesson. Start with the person already waiting for the date to begin, and when their partner arrives, tell the rest of the story from their perspective. Sight will be key in this scene.
Atonement Author: _beetle_/Rachel EB Fiction/EthanMB365 Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: None. Rating: PG-13 Word count: Approx. 1,500 Notes/Warnings: None. Summary: Written for the prompt: Photo of an elderly woman sitting on a bench in a sunlit room, with two rows of back to back benches. Behind the woman and facing the opposite way, sits another figure that is obscured by the woman.
Kindred Spirits: No Sweeter Innocence Than Our Gentle Sin Author: _beetle_/Rachel EB Fiction/EthanMB365 Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: M/M Rating: NC-17 Word count: Approx. 2000 Notes/Warnings: None. Summary: Written for the prompt: You choose which character POV you wish to write. You have a 1500 word maximum to write the sex scene. This is a class about sensuality, so please leave the vulgarity out of your story. Do not spend a lot of time adding backstory. Focus on the intimacy aspects between your couple; take them from foreplay through climax.
Kindred Spirits: Talk is Cheap Author: _beetle_/Rachel EB Fiction/EthanMB365 Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: M/M Rating: PG-13 Word count: Approx. 1,500 Notes/Warnings: None. Summary: Written for the prompt: Write from the point of view of character “B”. It doesn’t matter which character is the first one to say “I LOVE YOU”. For this assignment focus on the emotions, the reaction of the person who heard the words. This is another one of those milestones that is important in any relationship.
Kindred Spirits: A Kiss is Still a Kiss Author: _beetle_/Rachel EB Fiction/EthanMB365 Fandom: Original Fic Pairing: M/M Rating: R Word count: Approx. 4,200 Notes/Warnings: None. Summary: Written for the prompt: Write that kiss! We will be taking off from the end of the first date, think of it as a continuation. Switch back to character A, and use only their POV. How many senses can you incorporate in this scene to make your moment fly off the page? Make sure to use the sense of touch. How does this kiss make character A feel? Don’t forget to include some inner dialog here at some point in the scene, before, during or after their lips meet.
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