Recent content by A. E. Lowan

My parents were from New Jersey. I say this because their breed of sarcasm was pretty brutal. It's also difficult to translate into text, unless there are brows being quirked every other sentence. It's my default to sarcasm, and I rarely bring it out. It's very negative. Which brings me to...

Personally, I favor screenshots.

You drop the medical term. Unless that specific term is plot important, you aren't required to use it. Like this. Battlefield surgery in the blood and mud, and pay attention to how she's dealing with the terminology. It's worth noticing the repeat here. It mirrors the first lines - The little...

Indeed. But why stop there? When existing language fails to provide, I say look further afield. "Dudetastically," "Scruffed." I have a good time seeing how stretchy English has become. And... looking over the corpse of his aunt like he didn't just have her brought to him trussed up like a bird...

Fun fact: We also have a mute character, the father of one of our FMC's. He's also suffering from mental illness and severe trauma. This is his intro. Do we have opinions? From Faerie Rising: The First Book of Binding (I detect a pattern. lol) ~~~ Among wizards, perhaps only the library...

*raises hand* I think I've missed something along the way - which should surprise absolutely nobody - but are we talking about a fanfic? I love fanfic, just trying to figure out what gear we're in. lol

... Cian finished unbuttoning her coat and spread it open. “I’m not sure. But I can feel that you hurt.” He gave a small, frustrated frown and met her eyes. Tucked against him like this he was very close. “I don’t know how to say it right. Can I show you?” Dazed, Winter nodded. He reached...

Now I'm just showing off. Say "sexy" and I'm Beetleguese. lol This is the chunk leading up. ~~~ He approached her, worry plain on his beautiful face. “I… I don’t know what to say. How to say it. I want to help.” Winter turned away. “No one can help,” she whispered. “It’s already over.” She...

Okay, no. I can respond to this with nothing but blunt truth. That was idiotic. Whoever said that and thought it was a great idea to spread around like y. pestis or xylitol in peanut butter- and we use medical terms. One of our FMC's is a trauma surgeon - should be stuffed into a copy of 1984...

Oh, hey! He just dropped another video, and even on-topic!

If the book was the Magna Carta, it still counts. Maybe more. We all do homework for a living. ;)

And this one. Just perfection. Viggo's monologue is required viewing and note taking for any writer, in my not-at-all humble opinion.

How about the villain monologue, but it's not the villain giving it? This is, as usual, a bit long but it's the first piece of ours that's gotten the reaction, "... Jesus." It pleased me. :) From Faerie Rising: The First Book of Binding... ~~~ Lana continued to trace her fingertip around the...

Nope, we're the pond to hit. That feeling when you wish it was real, that someone had really read our work and they loved it? That's how they get us. They hit us hard and go right for the validation. So many of us have never had any support for our work. We're easy targets, and social media just...