The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars has stood atop the hills of Sherman Oaks for decades, with a façade lovingly fashioned like the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Carved into its faded orange exterior is an imagined history of flying ships and extraterrestrials, of tangled tendrils and tentacles, of creatures serpentlike and...
The main character wakes up one day to discover that everyone in the world has vanished, leaving only empty cities and clues hinting at a malevolent force behind the disappearance. As they uncover the truth, they realize they may not be alone after all.
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In hell souls are trapped in a perpetual state of freefall. Write about one soul's realization that they can manipulate the laws of physics in this realm and their attempts to find a way to control their descent or ascend to a different plane.
An ordinary office building houses a secret elevator that leads to an alternate dimension. Each floor of the building corresponds to a different universe, and the inhabitants of each floor are versions of the same people with increasingly strange and distorted personalities.
I've been trying to write a novel for years, but I cannot get over my perfectionism at the time of writing. It's manageable for short stories, but novels... it just seems impossible.
Someone once asked me how I would describe my writing style, and I had a very particular but short answer: dry, succinct, melodrama....
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