Open Your Story with a Wow!

Engage Your Readers at the Start

By Annette Rey

How quickly do you get bored when a story doesn’t get to the point right away? Are you disturbed when the location is not made clear? What if an opening begins with dialogue? Those words better be dynamic, right?

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A Writer’s Lament

Not the Usual Writing Lesson

By Annette Rey

What do I want to say? Will I tell you things you don’t want to hear?

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Dreaming

By Annette Rey

I heard you speak emotion,
Beautiful Words I have never spoken,
Or ever dreamed to say.
Your flower blooms.

The things you said
To your lover,
I never said before.
I never felt before.

What passion you feel,
What honesty
And bareness of soul.
You inhale life.

Can I ever learn
Such things to say,
Such things to feel?
I dream to love.