Writing Advice: Show, Tell, Adverbs and Others
I'll focus on the biggest one first, and that's the common 'show don't tell' mantra.
Advent, Chapter 8-Infiltration
Withdrawing his hand, he hit his temples repeatedly, ranting around the room playing the mantra, "nobody trusts me!"
Superhero Story: The Grave Keeper's Headstone
When the raven was repeating who and what he was like a mantra, the naga reached up with the collar and harness, sliding them over the raven's body to replace his outfit.
Sibirskaia: Sticks & Stones Part 3
A simple enough, little mantra. a happy, convenient excuse. a lie. he never needed to take life seriously, to give any real effort at school, or to find himself involved in any real controversy.
A Different Munum
A blank emptiness of the mantra of the slave, to be filled only by whatever master purchased him when they arrived at al-mazid.
Teenage Troubles: Chapter 13
Like... breathing in and out, countering to ten, my mantra...""what's a mantra? it sounds.... religious." quinn interrupted, he flinched when he heard marco's annoyed rumble. "sorry.""a mantra-" marco informed loudly, almost shocking quinn.
Coffee Microfictions, Collection III (October 1 2022)
A mantra crept up his head, wrapped around his brain, then slipped out of his throat. "obey the orgone... obey the orgone..." over and over. the mantra felt better and better the more he did it. it fit his snout perfectly.
hotter than a fantasy (longer like a highway)
It wasn't long before his mantra changed, _"matematemate!"_ turning to _"breedbreedbreedbreedbreed!"
Heros Of Alteria
His morbid mantra had did little to ease the pain he felt inside, his whole family dead and he wasn't there to stop it. "what could i have done? tackled the sniper?!"
While the Cat is away (Ch. 13.5)
He whispered the words to himself, a soothing mantra in the dark. "everybody owes, and everybody pays."
Double Trouble
She moaned his name over and over again like a mantra, begging her to fill her up with his sticky cum. he buried his groans into her shoulder as he thrust her against the wall, the room filling with the scent of their sex.
Rubber Invasor
She tried to resist, she recited her mantras and bit her own hand, but now the room smelled strongly of her own arousal. the lustful moans of the creatures resonated louder than ever.