Re: Discussion AUGUST 75 Word Writing Challenge
Grovelling admiration, Hex; you already knew I'd judged it best.
And thanks, Starbeast; I wasn't expecting even mentions from this month, not my genre, concentration poor, travelling a lot, so it was nice to know it appealed to someone.
And I'm sorry about never giving a short list; my method of marking really doesn't lend itself to that means of expression, and if I started mentioning the points I found good in stories it wouldn't be short. More like Perp's analysis, actually.
I did manage an alternative (write what you know) but only cut it down to size – or built it up to size (it wanted to be 49 words or 125) after posting the other.
If music feed the bee of love.
The final violin mutilator filed from the classroom, the keyboard players and electric guitarists were in headphones, computer programs doing half the painful preparatory training…
Albert sighed with relief. He taught no vocalists or percussions. His saxaphonist had been with him two terms and was no longer producing toneless squeals. What horrors could the new term bring to one who had taught woodwinds, brass, digerydoo ?
The page in the calendar held one word.
Bagpipes.
