Poll!

[ladylight]

Eureka! I have it! In the interests of self-betterment and advancement, cleverly disguised beneath a veneer of apparent procrastination, I'd like you lot to set me a fearsome challenge (because let's be honest, I'm getting damn lazy with what I turn out lately XD) ...

Poll Faster, Higher, Spammier

I make no promises for a readable outcome, but I shall do my best! Faito!!

Comments

[tasllyn]

I went for the self-contained short mostly because I haven't had a chance to actually sit and READ any of your work yet, and I want to, and I think a self-contained short without my worrying about needing (or wanting) to read something else related to it etc. etc. would be a good place for me to start. Forgive the lack of punctuation. We celebrated my mom's birthday today, and I ended up being expected to finish my mother's wine as well as my own. Alcohol makes me do funny things and wine gets me there faster than most other alcohol.

Anyway, on nihiriki's point, I think it is harder to do a fantasy short than with other genres, but it is possible. I took a Creating Short Stories class (which I soon dropped out of due to a personality conflict between me and my teacher. He was not very open to fantasy stories. We had an argument about whether faery was a proper, accepting spelling for the word fairy until I pulled out a book I brought with me just for that purpose to show him), where I was supposed to write a short story within 3 pages (also had about three pages of rules to follow. I was not happy). Double-spaced. I did manage to write the story, but I would not say that I was very happy with it. Oh, and I set it in a house and garden in New York, so I managed to avoid some of the setting description issues. In fact, that's probably why I set it there. Can't remember now. I think that was about 5 years ago.

Sorry for the tangents. Blame the wine. It apparently makes me even more verbose than usual. And since I'm online, I actually can remember and pick up where I left off.

I'm done now.

[ladylight]

*snerk* Ah, familial duty.

I hated every (supposedly) Creative Writing class I ever took. Since when was there a rule in writing that you couldn't write about what wasn't real? :P (And my own teachers' grammar/spelling was rubbish. Absolutely appalling. It still makes me angry for all the kids who take that subject and expect to LEARN something.)

Thanks for the vote, hon ... let's see how I go ... ;D