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crystalwizard
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| Posted 2/2/2008 3:15 PM (GMT -4) |   | The Flashing Swords Fall 2007 writing challenge winnner is chosen and his entry is up on the writing challenge page.
Congratulations to Matthew Dempsey with Promise of Spring.
New challenge is also posted on that same page. | | Back to Top | | |
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darkbow
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MattDempsey
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| Posted 2/3/2008 7:19 PM (GMT -4) | | Thanks,
I'm totally chuffed to have won.
As a heads up, in case people haven't seen it the new prompt is
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The moon slowly rose above the horizon, revealing a dark shape slinking through the trees toward the dreaming village.
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If someone wants to try something a little odd, I looked up slink in the dictionary and it also means :
To give birth to prematurely: The cow slinked its calf.
Go on, use that meaning in your entry, it certainly puts a different slant on things. | | Back to Top | | |
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MattDempsey
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| Posted 2/3/2008 8:51 PM (GMT -4) | | crystalwizard said...MattDempsey said...
Thanks,
I'm totally chuffed to have won.
As a heads up, in case people haven't seen it the new prompt is
........
The moon slowly rose above the horizon, revealing a dark shape slinking through the trees toward the dreaming village.
.........
If someone wants to try something a little odd, I looked up slink in the dictionary and it also means :
To give birth to prematurely: The cow slinked its calf.
Go on, use that meaning in your entry, it certainly puts a different slant on things. for that meaning, I don't think you can say 'slinking through the trees toward' anything. Unless it's a really really really big mother and a really tiny forest.
So you appreciate the scale, you are building a picture of the creature in your mind already, you can imagine the expectant mother settling down, feeling something amiss in her belly. The nearby village close by is all she can find to feed her young, not ideal but the best she can do at short notice.
She crash lands into the trees, her wings are torn by the trees, her huge gravid body smashes them and forms a clearing.
Who is the hero that can stand against this foe?
What if we make the hero the runt of the litter, small even among the early births? Fighting the stronger in his litter for the sweet taste of flesh.
It can be done, perhaps it can even be done well, perhaps. :) | | Back to Top | | |
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