On demand
I made a seed-story on demand. SGVH, moderator of a virtual workshop, asked me and other people for a seed-story, circa 1000 words long, to be used in a workshop excercise. It had to have defined characters and circunstances, and i asumed more than one character and a specific yet ample setting. I ussually accept all the challenges by SGVH to make short-stories, so i took this in. The thing is, my mind was empty, devoid of ideas. Yet, i felt the need to comply, as in to test my self, my ability to create under stress. I toyed with stupid and pointless concepts, and with the chance of a cheapshot: using a chunk of a larger narration. Finally in New Year´s Eve, bursting with hangovers, i had and idea with a german medieval fencing master, from the age of manly heavy swords, 1300-1500. I´ve just read of that on Wiki :) and was somewhat knowleadgelable on the matter. The setting was Ulm, Germany, shortly before Reformation. Didn´t had any spice to add, no drama... so i came up with a common place in medieval themes: sorcery within misterious venetian mirrors. Had to add a few distinctive characters, such as four disciples -with different nationalities-, the town major and the bishop. Now that´s just dandy. I cooked up the events, used archaic language -archaic as in pedantic, not as in periodlike-, and sent the thing to SGVH. Does this means am so good as to make stories on the march?