Setting Stories

Taylor Moore joins the Finer Things Society at the last possible minute to satisfy a financial aid requirement, assuming it will be an easy box to check. Instead, he discovers a rigorously structured organization devoted not to nostalgia, but to discipline. When he shows up to the first meeting in jeans and a T shirt, he is calmly turned away. The Society's president, Rosalyn, makes it clear that participation includes presentation, and that standards are not suggestions. At home, his longtime girlfriend Layla reads the handbook he never bothered to open and realizes the depth of what he has signed. What begins as mild embarrassment becomes a reckoning with his lifelong habit of drifting. Forced to rebuild his wardrobe, refine his grooming, and learn the etiquette he once mocked, Taylor slowly confronts the difference between showing up physically and showing up intentionally. As the semester unfolds, the Society does not bend to accommodate him. Instead, it offers structure, correction, and responsibility. Layla, who once found his casualness charming, watches to see whether he will finally take something seriously. Through slips, hosiery, posture training, and the steady authority of Rosalyn's expectations, Taylor begins to understand that refinement is less about femininity and more about follow through. By the time he is entrusted to host a formal salon, he is no longer trying to disappear into the back row. He stands composed, deliberate, and present. The Finer Things Society becomes not a costume, but a crucible, reshaping a young man who once skimmed the surface of his own life into someone capable of discipline, grace, and love that means what it says.

**Shadows of the Silk Throne** is a historical romance set during the Tang Dynasty. The story revolves around Empress Li Mei, who is determined to reclaim her throne after being betrayed by her own family. Along the way, she crosses paths with Prince Wei, a charming diplomat with his own agenda.

When 19-year-old Amina is found dead inside a locked hostel room, the police rule it as suicide. The autopsy report says one thing. The room says another. There were no fingerprints. No forced entry. No struggle. But someone heard knocking at 2:17 AM. The final line in the report reads: Cause of death: Undetermined. Some deaths don't leave evidence. They leave questions.

In the summer of 1942, along the quiet marshes of Harbor Glen, eighteen-year-old Loretta Thronehill meets Jasiah, a dockworker whose steady hands and quiet devotion stand in contrast to the world she was raised to inherit. Their connection is immediate-and forbidden. War looms, letters replace touch, and societal expectation threatens to pull them apart before their love can take root. Across decades marked by separation, parental disapproval, and the weight of class and tradition, Loretta and Jasiah choose one another in the quiet ways that matter most. Harbor Glen becomes their refuge-a place of tides and letters, rowboats and lantern light-where love is not announced, but lived. As years pass, homes are built, businesses are passed down, and children and grandchildren grow among the marsh reeds and docks that once bore witness to a single summer's promise. What began as a secret romance becomes a legacy defined by devotion, independence, and memory. This is a story of love that endures not because it was easy, but because it was chosen-again and again-until time itself became part of the vow.

Jayvee was always seen as a loser, a nobody, and completely worthless. But what happens when the biggest loser on campus falls in love with the most popular campus crush? Can the surge of emotions from someone in love be stopped? Will a coward find the courage to face the humiliations he endures? What will happen when love and hate collide?

Returning from an exhausting week in the corporate trenches, Aryan is met not with rest, but with two rivals: one woman hand-picked for her business pedigree by his father, and another chosen for her traditional grace by his mother. With his eyes fixed solely on the CEO's chair, Aryan has no room for a wife. To silence the wedding bells, he sets an "impossible" list of professional and personal conditions. He thinks he's secured his freedom-until one of the women decides to treat his conditions like a business contract she intends to win.

We got a half demon boy and a fallen Princes, not much to say and no it's not a romance story... mostly, probably.

These are tips and lessons on how to plan your book, along with characters, setting, plots, et cetera. (This does not belong to me).

This World Building book is one of three mini workshops of a larger program called the Dream Shop Story Creation Workshop 2019 written and created by TeamofDreams. You can work through this book as a stand-alone to guide you through world building for your writing project, or you can navigate to the Dream Shop Story Creation 2019 Workbook and work through the whole program that includes world building, character development, and plot generation. Happy Writing! Team of Dreams

What happens when a girl awakens on a beach in a dream world? What adventures take place? Who does she meet?

Hello! This is gonna be a bunch of poems, so yeah. No but seriously this had been inspired lamely by TV shows and how my perspective of life has changed in the last like year or so. Hope you guys like them!!! I OWN ALL PPL! But most of these I wrote last year but some I have written this year, soo yeah! Enjoy!

Chasing What's Left by CEJAYYL Description: Amara Dela Cruz is used to surviving. In a world that rewards perfection and punishes softness, she's mastered the art of keeping her head down acing deadlines, hiding burnout, and pretending she's fine even when she's not. Then comes Silas Reyes. A Mass Comm student who talks too much, laughs too loud, and carries grief behind the way he avoids silence. He's everything she's not chaotic, warm, unbothered. And yet, in the most inconvenient semester of her life, she finds herself drawn to him. What starts as a forced group project slowly unravels the walls Amara spent years building. Through late-night coffee runs, missed calls, and moments that feel too much like home, she begins to wonder What if the things we run from are the same things we need? This is a story of emotional baggage, healing friendships, pressure that bruises, and a love that grows when no one's looking. Because sometimes, chasing what's left... is the only way to feel whole again.

Minsan, may mga pag-ibig na hindi agad natutupad. May mga damdaming kailangang itago. At may mga pusong handang maghintay... kahit gaano pa katagal. Sa loob ng 11 taon, si Kat ay tahimik na nagmahal. Si Lance naman, hindi alam na ang babaeng palaging nasa tabi niya... siya pala ang magiging habang buhay niya. Mula sa office romance sa Italy, mga sunset dinners sa Florence, travel moments sa Pilipinas, hanggang sa married life na puno ng kilig, respeto, at pangarap-ito ang kwento ng dalawang pusong pinili ang isa't isa sa tamang panahon. Hindi perpekto ang naging journey nila. May heartbreak. May pagdududa. May paghihintay. Pero sa huli... Sa bawat panaginip, sa bawat hakbang, sa bawat bukas- sila pa rin. Isang kwento ng mature love, second chances, at forever na hindi minadali-kundi pinaglaban.

This book is so that if you need help with the design of something so people, events, setting and anything else I can think of.

This story contains a university slow-burn student-teacher romance drama. They cross over obstacles as they grow and end up together after her graduation.

You have a story to tell. Let it out! Imagine developing a story and telling it in a way that will keep the readers turning the pages. Hank Quense, the author of more than a dozen highly-regarded novels, shows you how to do it. In the book, you'll learn how to: * Develop imagery the reader can use * Build well-rounded characters the readers will relate to * Create a path through the plot cloud * Develop an emotional arc to keep readers on the edge of their seats * Write dramatic and effective scenes * Employ story-telling techniques to hold the readers' interest * and much more

Ellis is just another girl who believes in the good of everyone. But when she meets Koi, another extraordinary being, government secrets leak out, and war rains down upon the perfect nation of Utopia. A rebellion is formed. And when all is lost, the trio learns the true purpose of Utopia, and the truth of the world before it. And as if it couldn't get worse, a pandemic starts, and a virus spreads, the end of the world is just beginning.

Eternal Dreams is a fiction fantasy trilogy about six teenage friends who escape into a dream world to hide from the horrors of their own lives, only to find that reality is catching up with them anyway. Drephoria, the name of the stunning dream world created from their collective minds, will test the limits of their friendship, break the balance between good and evil and prove the true values of memories and the imagination. The first book in the trilogy, "The Curse of Memories," focuses on the central character Kail and his dark past, told through memories, while simultaneously introducing the rest of his friends (known as The Inseparable Six) and the other strange and deadly inhabitants of Drephoria. Pitted against the dark queen Malise and her legendary allies known as The Forgotten Four, Kail and his friends must rid their world of evil before they lose themselves forever. Nostalgic, thrilling, heart-breaking, and consistently memorable, Eternal Dreams is fantasy at its finest.