Fast Fiction Challenge: Every One A Winter

[budgie_uk]

Title: Every One A Winter
Word: garnish
Challenger: Alan Woollcombe
Length: 200 words exactly The evening had been a success, although she’d paid him no more attention than anyone else. No more than he’d expected, but disappointing all the same

Comments

[josepheenie]

sometimes I wonder about you... actually lookin forward to my story now :D

[budgie_uk]

A large part of the fun in this excercise is playing with the titles - when I can - to produce a story that while remaining true to the title, is something entirely unexpected.

The best responses I can get from a story are something like "Oh, I didn't think you'd do that" or "Didn't expect that..."

Though to be fair, playing against expectations is always fun, in writing or in life.

Alistair Cooke said that successful broadcasting on radio is the control of suspense... and I think there's an element of that in my writing, especially the fast fictions. Though, to be fair, alasdair once asked me if I'd ever written anything that didn't have a "twist in the tale" at the end. The honest answer - at least as far as fiction goes - is yes, but very, very, rarely...

[josepheenie]

heh, if you want to knwo what the basement of doom actually is you had better get cracking :P

[anonymous]

Very interesting - you spin an intriguing scenario, and one that definitely makes me want to read on.

Can't wait for the next one!

Alan