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Because the tiny muscles in your nose will always point it away due to a reflex action. What happened to Batman's parents?

16. Why can’t I touch my nose with my tongue?

Sounds like you're making good progress on all fronts there, Cobra. Do the bees like snow or do they hibernate? Talking of hibernating, that's...

Lint accepted the coat and buried her face in the fluffy fleece lining. Nose

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Cold and sunny here on the East Coast of the US and looking like a week of (hopefully) decent snow. Fingers crossed! Bees are well (read: still...

Welcome to AW, Vishwjeet. There is no better writing forum on the interwebs, in my opinion, than AW. If you're serious about becoming a better...

As an exercise, you can try describing the same setting or person from several characters’ points of view, think hard about how each character...

I watched "Prisoners" again last night (having first watched it a few years ago) and it still stands up as an excellent film, even when you know what...

Not wishing to dampen your enthusiasm, but I found, the further down the rabbit hole it got, the less engaging it was. The premise and the first...

Sphynge. Love it. Sounds like the sort of name Peter Sellars would have come up with in the Goon Show. Sphynge.:snoopy:

I recently acquired a couple vintage issues of women’s magazines, to browse for research for my McCarthy-era stories. One thing I love about women’s...

A cartwheel away from someone? Maybe a sturgeon making a cartwheel to the tune of a broken piano 🤔 Or, stay at the distance you’d want a “bad...

Sledgehammer he had acquired by

Critique it for what? You are covering more than one thing here. It jumps from one topic to another and to me it's wordy and I struggle to get...

Since magic tends to violate basic physical laws (such as entropic energy distributions, conservation of energy, and spacetime), any magic...

You'll need to post it in the share your work section, because we're not supposed to do critiques in this section. I'll be happy to critique it in...

I'm going to give you a paragraph from the piece I submitted. Critique it if you'd like. He slipped a pair of leather loafers over his bare...

Ugh. One of the local "culture" tabloids where I am does this, but they're up front about it being an ad sale. For X dollars, you get an ad and...

Heh heh. Yeah, it’s a scary amount of current. I think they’re suggesting a half-charge in 5 minutes that would give 300km? Sounds like these...

I think what you're experiencing is a classic underwriting complex. I also consider myself an underwriter, but I've found techniques to overcome...

Thanks for the tips everyone. Much appreciated.

Welcome, Vishwjeet. If you want to be the best writer you can be, and are willing to work to make that happen, this site can be enormously helpful,...

Paradoxically, Fiction has a lot of problems with narrative built right into the mix since (for example) it often tries to position its plausibility...

Working on two short stories right now, and gathering my thoughts for a novel I've had on my mind for a while. I feel more or less ambivalent towards...