For Challenge 14. I think I used six of the words. This was so much fun.

There was no time for procrastination. She would teach them to slight her, and she would use the child, round perfect pink infant, the embodiment of their dreams.

Everything black and ugly within her, everything borne of chaos and waste, as withered and dead as this place was now alive, ripe and light and full, she poured into the spell. An ocean of hate, and all the girl would need do was spin. Drawn to the strange thing in the gloaming, its wheel and its deadly, gleaming needle…one touch and the kingdom would sleep. Forever, she hoped.

And she smiled.

Oh, Amy, I need to send you another of my stories tonight.

Oooh, more P-C fiction to look forward to! By all means, send it along.

erika, email insent last night, very belatedly.

Backflung...it ain't no thing, as my mom still says.Mom was influenced by Don Cornelius at a formative stage.I've got to get offline for a while, but I'd like to talk about that some more later.

Amy, wheee! Fantasy doesn't do anything for me, but I love fairy tales with a burning hot love. That one rocks.

Thank you, ma'am! I don't read fantasy either, but I do love me some fairy tales. And revenge is such a common thread in them.

(nodding like a bobblehead doll)

Fantasy doesn't do anything for me, but I love fairy tales with a burning hot love.

Thank you, ma'am! I don't read fantasy either, but I do love me some fairy tales

t makes note to self to never ever share work in progress

I, uh...finished another chapter and was feeling kinda proud. Gah. One of the great obstacles with writing genre fiction.

Kristin, nononono, you ought to be proud, damnit. Especially since I'm the only human being of my own acquaintance who doesn't get fantasy (edit: and Amy, so, well, two of us out of six billion).

And even with that, I'm a magic realism lover, so, there you go.

Share!

Ack! Kristin, lots of people looooove fantasy! Even I love fantasy movies. (Well, some. Usually Arthurian stuff.) And I might like it if I read it, but I've just never found anything that appealed, you know? (Actually, that's not true, I did want to read Mists of Avalon and simply wasn't swept up enough to continue after a few pages.)

Plus, recognizing good writing doesn't rely on subject matter/genre. I was a freelance reader for a publisher once, long ago, and the editor I worked with bought men's action/adventure stuff. I was a bit confounded when I learned that, but he said, Hey, if the writing's good and the story's pulling you in, let me know. And it worked. The only caveat to that was knowledge of the genre, i.e. since I didn't normally read those books, I never knew if certain tropes/settings had been done to death, but he took care of that.

Also, like Deb, I love magic realism. And I love sci-fi, too, but again, movies, not so much books.

This is something I wanted to discuss a little bit in the book club thread, but I don't know if I should. I realized the other day that there are a lot of books I absolutely adore mostly because of the writing. The stories and characters, of course, worked, too, but the reason I go back to them is not always to revisit the story, but to immerse myself in how it's told. Is that making any sense?