Spirit

Use #CleanWIP with on-theme lines from a work-in-progress and your tweet might be included in a https://t.co/yUHUbxZp23 collaborative article for authors who lean clean and readers who love them. The #CleanWIP theme for Sunday, August 9, 2020 is SPIRIT. pic.twitter.com/0j4HiljjXw

— CleanWIP Magazine (@cleanwip) August 9, 2020

#CleanWIP Half-Price Bride: Elope?” Clint’s eyes blazed in the moonlight. “Landon had better not try it!”
Emily laid a calming hand on Clint’s fisted one. “You know how some kids are. The more you try to control them, the more they rebel. I sense a rebellious spirit in Alissia.”

— Laurean Brooks (@Laurean2) August 9, 2020

~ Scott R. Rezer ~
The last few lines I wrote late last night for my current WIP, The Gambit Queen: Book Three of the Magdalen Cycle (historical fantasy)…
His gaze slid toward Jehan, motioning with his head for him to move closer. “What are you—a spirit of the darkness or the light?”
“The Muslims call us jinn and afrit; you Franks would call us faeries and the like. Creatures of magic whispered about only in secret,” she said. “In truth, we—I—am a daughter of Eve, a child of the light. You have no to cause to fear or mistrust me, Thierry de St. Germaine. We are the same; we simply possess magic and long life.”
“You are immortal, if the tales are true.”
“We are also prone to great vanity and arrogance, but we can be slain, though not easily.”

Instead of becoming harder or more bitter with each tragedy, Pa became softer, and sadder, and less present. When Fred drowned in the Neuse River, Pa half-disappeared; his body was there, but most of the time his spirit was somewhere else. #CleanWIP

— Jessica Marie Holt — Author (@Jessica06311722) August 9, 2020

Though the marks stood as a stark reminder of a darker past, they were also a remarkably powerful testimony to her spirit in overcoming the insurmountable. She had not accomplished this alone, but with the aid of those who loved her.#CleanWIP (spirit)

— D. Art and Kay McKinney (@dartkaymckinney) August 9, 2020