Waymeet Challenge: A Lesson Learned
It's almost Back to School time here and the dreams of a lazy summer fade into the drone of cicadas, heralding the busy-ness of another school year, if only in nostalgic memories: sharp-tipped leads and bright colored pencils, heavy reams of lined paper and tightly spiraled notebooks, pungent-scented felt markers, gritty pink erasers, blunt nosed scissors and white glue, sweet tasting. Dog-eared texts, with signatures scrawled roundly below the names of students who passed before us - and the lessons begin.
But somehow, it turns out that there are a zillion things to learn that aren't taught in school. Hard knocks and unexpected lessons make us both older and wiser. Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks after all; perhaps what doesn't kill us really does make us stronger. (And sometimes the lessons are just plain confusing - "I think I can" versus "There is no Try!" - and it takes a Tol Eressea for us to begin to understand.)
Our next waymeet Challenge is about life's unexpected lessons, whether simple and sweet, angsty, fun-filled, or the kind which come at an unbearable price.
A Lesson Learned
Members have been asked to write a story wherein one (or more) characters learns a lesson. Any kind of lesson, from silly to profound, from book-learning to an experience that changes everything. In school, on the set, in the Shire... A dance class, a beloved/loathed teacher. An epiphany after which nothing is the same.
The Quest changes a world - and our hobbits, too. New Zealand replaces college for one young man, and teaches another about directing, and for all, the love forged on a film shoot finds a way to connect around the globe and through the years.
Stories begin posting 1 September. See you then!
But somehow, it turns out that there are a zillion things to learn that aren't taught in school. Hard knocks and unexpected lessons make us both older and wiser. Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks after all; perhaps what doesn't kill us really does make us stronger. (And sometimes the lessons are just plain confusing - "I think I can" versus "There is no Try!" - and it takes a Tol Eressea for us to begin to understand.)
Our next waymeet Challenge is about life's unexpected lessons, whether simple and sweet, angsty, fun-filled, or the kind which come at an unbearable price.
A Lesson Learned
Members have been asked to write a story wherein one (or more) characters learns a lesson. Any kind of lesson, from silly to profound, from book-learning to an experience that changes everything. In school, on the set, in the Shire... A dance class, a beloved/loathed teacher. An epiphany after which nothing is the same.
The Quest changes a world - and our hobbits, too. New Zealand replaces college for one young man, and teaches another about directing, and for all, the love forged on a film shoot finds a way to connect around the globe and through the years.
Stories begin posting 1 September. See you then!