“If I hit forty,” she said as she shoved the thimble across the board, “and I’m still single, and you’re still single, too, let’s get married.” She laughed after she said it. He laughed after she said it. And they promised to never forget.

And then she left town. And he left town. And other towns came and went, and other friends, and every now and then he tried to find her. He looked, and he wondered, as he looked, if she looked, too.

He’s over forty, now. And still single. And he knows that she’s over forty, but doesn’t know if she’s still single. Sometimes, in his tiny studio, he sits cross-legged on the bare floor, like they used to, playing Monopoly by himself. She goes first, and he moves her thimble to Oriental, and Baltic, and Reading Railroad. He buys her properties, builds her houses and hotels, and pays her two hundred dollars whenever she passes Go. And when it’s his turn, and his shoe lands on something she owns, he pays her with a smile.

She always wins.

As a Holy pally i [ALWAYS capitalize] just love stacking just SP and Crit. i [always capitalize] dont [missing apostrophe] stack much haste dont [missing apostrophe and comma (run-on sentence)] really need it.i dont [missing space; always capitalize!; missing apostrophe] even gem for it Or [missing punctuation or improper capitalization and run-on] mp5 unless its [its != it's; D- mistake!] for the socket bonus if it a [missing verb (really? seriously?)] socket bonus of SP or crit. Y i dont [Y is NOT a word! You know better!; capitalization; apostrophe] gem for Haste? i [ok, now you're doing it on purpose] sit at 14% haste i [press the extra key, dammit!] like it and in [2 independent clauses must be separated by a comma before the conjunction] my spec it give [improper verb form] me 15% more hast everytime i [spelling; every time = 2 words, i = laziness] judg b/c [spelling, informal or shorthand abbreviations should be avoided in final text] of jugements of the pure [spelling; proper nouns should be capitalized]. and y i dont [/facepalm] gem for mp5 is b/c [informal abbreviation] we have Divine Plnea [?] this it [missing verb again]. I [holy cow! You did it!] sit at 27k mana i [doh!] have 2801 SP and 27% crit my flask heals crit for 10 to 12k thats [apostrophe; run-on sentence] almost the as much a my [articles almost never proceed pronouns] holy light Holy like [interesting use of repetition and assonance... Oh, no, wait… that's one run-on sentence followed by a misspelling and another run-on sentence. Nevermind.] hits for13k [missing space] no crit and i [sigh] never run out for mana i [I've run out of things to say about this] dont [and this] need mp5 and y i  dont [please, I beg you, quit killing my language] gem for int like the other pallys are yea int give [improper verb form, but at least you remembered it.] you SP but [run-on sentence] you get more SP out of +23 sp the +20 int and [run-on] the only thing Int gives pallys is just SP and Crit. thats [capitalization; apostrophe] it it dont give [Oh. My. God.] you haste are [?] mp5  but i think its [capitalization; D- mistake] just better to just gem for SP and Crit not much int or hast or mp5 thats how i heal as a pally in pve i love it and it soo much fun most of the time i out heal ppl unless they are doing a lot of overhealing I dont just spem flash heal on the tank i really only heal if needed and when i ahve to bubble i put hand of sacrife on the tank i even do that in pvp for i dont get cc but that Diff. [Capitalization; spelling; repetition; spelling; punctuation; R.O.; capitalization; informal abbreviation;  R.O.; apostrophe; did you mean sperm?; punctuation; capitalization; punctuation; capitalization; R.O.; capitalization; spelling; punctuation; capitalization; capitalization; spelling; R.O.; capitalization; apostrophe; R.O.; capitalization] lol [huh?] But i [u suck (is that easier for you to understand?)] heal diff. then other eveyone Diff. [I don't even know what this means] so just do what you do and if it works dont change it btw i love healing thats all i love really in this game if there was not healing in this game i would not play anymore [R.O. and some other stuff] lol [I hope this stands for Learning Our Language.]
but thats how i heal i hope it helps  [Good thing you heal more effectively that you write, because I think my eyes are bleeding.]

Additional comments: *name redacted*, your content is solid, but you are still struggling with the basics. Run-on sentences and capitalization remain your biggest stumbling blocks, but you’re getting there. Keep practicing, and one of these days it will all fall into place. Overall, a nice improvement!

I’ve created a new category of post, Snapshots, for some of my creative writing. In a nutshell, these are the very beginnings of ideas. Most will be in their earliest of stages, before much polishing or editing has been done to them.

That’s how almost all of my writing starts… a single scene, a title, sometimes a line or two of dialogue. I flesh out these moments, these snapshots, until I get to a place where I don’t know what else to write. And that’s when I start thinking of the story behind the moment, that’s when I start asking questions. How did I get there? What happens next? What does this mean? What is that watermelon doing there (for you Buckaroo fans, I’ll tell you later)?

Most of the posts will be less than 1000 words (for a frame of reference, this one is ~200 words) and likely closer to 500 words. Some will be completely fictional. Some will be non-fiction. Others will have a few elements of non-fiction buried in fiction. None, however will be “finished” or “complete.” Some, like the first entry, “Culture Clash” will even be nearly incomprehensible. They are just the starting points for something else.