Welcome back warriors! Happy New Years. May 2014 see all your wishes come true. Weekend Writing Warriors lets authors give readers and other participants a sneak peek at current work or a work in progress. Visit www.wewriwa.com to check it out. Below I’ve included a snippet from my new release No Reason to Run. Last week, we left Shane with an armful of trouble. LOL. I skipped a few sentences ahead to provide some dialogue. There’s some creative punctuation as well.
“Listen, you got no reason to trust me, I get that, but you need a place to sleep and I’m offering.” She listened or gave a good impression of faking it. “Best thing you can do is take the bed. As pretty as you are, princess, come morning your ass will be dragging.” Shane heard her gasp right before he felt a bony elbow poke his stomach.
Shane chuckled and continued. “Everything looks better in the morning.” At least, his mom always said so but Shane didn’t necessarily have enough intel to support this and wouldn’t tell his mom that.
I enjoyed your characterization, I’m guessing she will stay, how could she refuse such…logic!
LOL, she stays Gemma 🙂
lol! I like the character you’re building in him. He just gave her a good verbal smackdown. 🙂
Yep. His logic is sound Teresa
She got more than she bargained for from him. Good job.
LOL, exactly Charmaine.
He called her princess. *chuckles* This is a fun snippet. Love the dialogue. 😀
Thx SJ, glad you enjoyed
I like Shane and I love the way you give us some insight into him along the way. Excellent excerpt!
Thanks Veronica. He was a fun character to write
This made me chuckle. He seems pretty funny : )
I think he deserved that elbow poke;)
LOL. I agree
Great book and to use one of my favorite scenes for your 8 had me happy! Well done, Michelle.
Glad you liked it JA
That’s right, sonny boy! You don’t argue with your mama’s wisdom! LOL
Oh, I’m going to like Shane. Great insight to the character’s personality.
Love his rough-but-soft tone. Great job!
Great last line there.