WRITING HELP: How To Show, Not Tell

A collection of useful words and sentences used to describe scenes or characters in writing a story. Plus, any useful things I encounter like how to write dialogues, flashbacks, and more.

Sprinkles

Wattpad Featured Story. For Darcy and Milo the world is always different. Life changes in a blink. Nothing is ever the same. Except for them. They don't know why. They always forget. But now it's time to remember... Again.

The Mark of Thorn: Book of Scars

Gabriel, blind and scarred, wanders aimlessly, haunted by memories of his lost love. He remembers the thorns that took his eyes better than he remembers her face. To him, his life is nothing. He exists only to suffer. It takes meeting a woman with scars similar to his own-a woman who has her own memory of thorns-for G...

Slow Dancing

After a car accident leaves Kaden Bretton temporarily blind, Isla Moore struggles to break up with him while disguised as his girlfriend, who died in the crash. ***** Isla Moore has been in love with Kaden Bretton since he taught her how to slow dan...

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Crash and Burn (1)

[PREVIOUSLY TITLED CHASING BACK ALLEYS] ❝Once a King, always a King.❞

Daemonum

[Highest Ranking: #171 in Society] Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between reality and fiction; for people like Emma, it's decidedly impossible. After having her life saved by a mysterious man, Emma Malcavech is left with nothing but a coma victim and a lot of questions. Plagued by nightmares and hallucinations...

The Executioners Three

*A Wattpad Editor's Choice* Freddie kissed him again. He groaned and pressed into it. Deepened it immediately, kissing her so hard, she thought he might draw blood. She liked it. But then he was pulling away. Backing away three steps, and freezing, miserable air rushed between them. "You're dangerous." He ran a hand...

In Case of Heartbreak

After a devastating accident, Dean Adams finds himself drawn to his classmate, and nurse-in-training, Katie Reynolds. What he doesn't expect to discover is that, as much as he needs her, she needs him even more.

Queen of Asgard (NaNoWriMo2018, Completed!)

Life was simpler for Suzume Hamada before she knew gods and monsters were real. The night her cousin was murdered by a frost giant was the night Suzume learned that Norse gods were not the stories she'd believed and that there were realms far beyond her own filled with creatures of dreams and nightmares alike. Saved...

Unholy Matrimony

Tobias and Talia are complete opposites, yet thrown together in an arranged marriage. Can they navigate married life in the wake of a terrible tragedy? ***** After being pressured into an arranged marriage to merge their families' companies, Talia a...

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The Graveyard Festival

Sixteen-year-old Thana sleeps in graveyards and crafts dreams for those who want them. She can create visions so vivid and detailed that they could be real. For the inhabitants of the sleepy town nearby, Thana's dreams are like drugs. When the Graveyard Festival appears in her cemetery in the middle of the night, Than...

In Your Heart

Everybody thinks Lucinda Mendel is a freak. With a messy family and a dodgy back ground, its hard to escape everyone's eyes. That includes Trent Hopkins. Unlike Luce, Trent is perfect. He's hot, popular, rich and he's everything that she isn't. He also likes to make sure that her life is hell 24/7. But when Luce acc...

Falling For Mr. Sundae | ✔

[watty's longlist 2018] Elisa Robinson has only one thing on her Summer to-do list: Go to Jamaica with her best friend. But after an ignorant tweet sent in the heat of the moment, her parents threaten to make her get a job so she could see life through a different set of eyes. Elisa was against the idea until she real...

Through My Window

Original Wattpad Trilogy of 'Hidalgo brothers' that inspired the Netflix movies! Final movie out this February 23, 2024. Through My Window is now published as a Wattpad Book! As a Wattpad reader, you can access the the Original Edition for free and the Books Edition upon purchase. Raquel Álvarez has only one goal - to...

The Midnight Boys

They reminded me of Peter Pan's Lost Boys, wild and rebellious, but all grown up in a way that could only be described in one word: sexy.

Vigilante | ✔

Eli didn't think much about the city's newest so-called hero, but he supposed Vigilante wasn't all that bad. Granted, he was kind of a jerk and if he ever tried to kiss Eli again he was definitely getting punched. A story about a starving college student, making a living serving coffee and the local vigilante with a c...

Something Inside (Published)

Ashton Miller was the richest, most powerful and sexiest man alive. Being a multimillionaire, he had everything he could have ever wanted; girls, cars, and so much money he didn't know what to do with. As the biggest playboy in New York, Ashton jumps from girl to girl breaking their hearts as he went along. He didn't...

Maybe Forever | ✓

❝My parents warned me about the drugs on the street but never about the one with the electric blue eyes and heartbeat.❞ Nothing could compare to the luxurious lives five teenagers lived in Covington Prep. Scandals, parties, paparazzi were embedded into their daily lives. But when secrets that were supposed to be six f...

The Casquette Girls (Book 1)

Seven girls tied by time. Five powers that bind. One curse to lock the horror away. One attic to keep the monsters at bay. ** After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne wants nothing more than her now silent city to return to normal. But with home resembling a war zone, a pa...

All This Time

Christmas Break spent in the Netherlands sounds like the perfect way for Charlotte Wright to relax with her best friend - until she sees the family that they'll be spending Christmas with! Wolfram van der Waals makes no secret of the fact he isn't Charlotte's biggest fan, even though he's never met her before. A quitt...

The Trouble with Kissing Connor

Sadie's secretly in love with her best friend Connor. When the lights go off at a party, she kisses him in the dark. The next day, Connor enlists her help to find his mystery kisser. Sadie is stuck in the middle, will she ever be able to tell him how she feels?

Hey, Noah

After the accident, Noah Archer built a wall around himself. But Riley Dawson is curious about him, and she's determined to meet the man behind his defenses. ***** Riley Dawson has always noticed Noah. He was the most popular guy on campus, until h...

Rushed (Hate at First Flight #1) ✔️

Alexandra Hunt has only two things on her list to do when she gets to Hollywood. 1. Surprise her boyfriend, James who is interning at a movie set. 2. Avoid Flynn Mathers, Hollywood's ultimate A-Lister and who also happens to be her biological father who asked her mother to have an abortion. It certainly didn't involve...

Golden Boy's Game

[ON HOLD] Emeraude Ivory is way in over her head. When a classic game of spin-the-bottle leads to an earth-shattering first kiss, the last thing Emeraude Ivory expects is to have the kiss blow up in her face. But when her gorgeous and seemingly eternally-single classmate shows up unannounced, she knows that something...

Land of Smoke and Ashes

When seventeen-year-old Natalie Porter finds a treasure chest belonging to her dead mother hidden away in the attic, she follows the clues inside and discovers her mother's death was never actually confirmed. Ten years ago she simply disappeared, leaving behind a mysterious charm necklace. Longing to learn more about...

Breakaway

Ryan wasn't expecting to end up with the captain of the hockey team as a roommate, and she certainly didn't expect the initial sexual tension between them to blossom into love. ***** In desperate need of a place to stay, Ryan Winters doesn't see an...