Tag Archives: Fiction

Stonehenge and Salisbury

Posted on 22/01/2011 by korastoynova

This is the sixth year we’ve come to the UK Championships here in Bournemouth, and despite Stonehenge being only 30 miles away – a quick day-trip, really – we’d never visited it! Mostly because we never have time to. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Dancing, Travels, Writing | Tagged Ballroom, Books, Bournemouth, Buckingham, characters, coffee, Dance, Description, Duke of Buckingham, England, Fiction, History, Inspiration, Kora Stoynova, Life, Love, market cross, novels, Richard III, Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral, Simeon Stoynov, Starbucks, Stonehenge, Travel, Wiltshire, winter, Writing | 1 Comment

Sick Dogs, Airplanes, and Writing

Posted on 14/01/2011 by korastoynova

This week has been terribly bittersweet. My birthday party on Saturday was great, so much fun! Then we went to a house party and spent the time taking care of kids waaaaay too drunk for health. But one the kids … Continue reading →

Posted in Travels, Writing | Tagged Books, characters, Chicago, Christianity, Christians, Description, England, evil vs good, Fiction, History, Inspiration, Jew, Jews, Judaism, Kora Stoynova, Life, London, novels, Practice, Prompts, Prose, Seattle, tattoos, Travel, Writing, Zoastrian | 7 Comments

Keeping Up 3 Blogs….

Posted on 07/01/2011 by korastoynova

You know, I never figured it would be so difficult to upkeep 3 blogs! It really is exhausting! I think I am getting the hang of it though. The problem is not this blog, or even my Starbucks Project, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Dancing | Tagged Ballroom, blogs, Dance, emotions dancesport, England, Fiction, Inspiration, Kora Stoynova, lessons, London, Practice, Simeon Stoynov, Starbucks, Travel | 1 Comment

What to Write?!?!?!

Posted on 07/12/2010 by korastoynova

Having writing problems… I have great ideas, storylines that will be great, characters full of conflict, facets and motifs and love stories and tragedies…. I’m itching to write! My mind is full of ideas, my dreams are haunted by scenes … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged abuse, Books, characters, death, Description, Fiction, History, Inspiration, Life, men, Murder, novels, Practice, Prompts, Prose, rape, Short Story, tragedy, Travel, Writing | 2 Comments

A Change of Focus

Posted on 15/10/2010 by korastoynova

For those of you who know me – and know my life – I am a busy busy bee, with very little time for leisure. And unfortunately, because my writing does not (as yet) make a good deal of money, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Books, Dance, Description, England, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Inspiration, Life, London, Love, Music, novels, Practice, Prose, Starbucks, Travel, winter, Writing | Leave a comment

The Man Who Sold the World

Posted on 30/03/2010 by korastoynova

This weekend we drove down to San Francisco. It wasn’t by choice. We were supposed to split the trip with another couple, and they backed out at the last minute. And as we were required to go to San Francisco … Continue reading →

Posted in Travels, Writing | Tagged Alix, Books, Buckingham, characters, Description, Exercises, Fiction, Guilhem, History, Inspiration, Life, Love, Lyrics, Music, Nevers, Nirvana, Poetry, Practice, Prompts, Prose, San Francisco, Songs, tragedy, Travel, Writing | 1 Comment

Character Profiling

Posted on 21/03/2010 by korastoynova

I know, of course, that there are more important things to characters than just their looks. That’s why when I’m creating my characters, I try not to spend too much time on their looks. After all, in order to write … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged actors, Anne Rice, Books, character building, characters, Description, Duke of Buckingham, Exercises, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Guilhem de Nevers, heath ledger, History, hugh jackman, Inspiration, Life, Love, Lyrics, Nevers, pictures, portraits, Practice, profiling, Prompts, Prose, rutger hauer, senses, Short Story, Songs, tragedy, Writing | Leave a comment

Frustrations, etc.

Posted on 16/03/2010 by korastoynova

I feel unbelievably frustrated with my writing right now. It’s strange, as I’m not doing very much of it. I’ve just finished majorly revising my last novel, which I’m certainly happy about, but I somehow don’t feel very satisfied. Maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged Books, characters, Description, Exercises, Fiction, Flash Fiction, frustration, Inspiration, Life, Love, men, obsession, Poetry, Practice, Prompts, Prose, senses, tragedy, Writing | Leave a comment

Back Home

Posted on 01/02/2010 by korastoynova

Well, after a very long time on the road, we are finally back home. It wasn’t just the trip to England that tired us out, it was an added trip to San Jose just two days after we returned! Yesterday … Continue reading →

Posted in Travels, Writing | Tagged Books, carnation, Classic, Dance, Description, England, Exercises, Fiction, Flamenca, Flash Fiction, France, History, Inspiration, Kora Stoynova, Life, Love, Lyrics, Moulins, Music, Nevers, novels, Prose, red, Romance of Flamenca, Songs, Writing | Leave a comment

Writing Exercise #4

Posted on 16/12/2009 by korastoynova

Write a descriptive paragraph. Now rewrite it five times, each time with one of our main senses missing. Then rewrite it again with all five senses included. Ok, I know it’s been a really, really, realllllyyyyy long time since I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged autumn, Books, cold, Description, Exercises, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Inspiration, Life, Practice, Prompts, Prose, prosopragnosia, senses, Short Story, Travel, Weather, Writing | Leave a comment

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