DISCUSSION -- APRIL 2019 300-word Writing Challenge (#33)

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Hummus: An allegory of the attempt to recapture the past through a nostalgic appreciation of art, with powerful emotional appeal.

Luiglin: A moving portrayal of the ways in which we are made up of our memories, with a cautionary reminder against looking too far behind ourselves.

Vaz: An epic high fantasy with a compelling depiction of the intertwining of love and hate.

Ashleyne: A mysterious dark fantasy with a look at the way in which the Other is both alluring and repellent.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

elvet: A heartfelt account of great personal loss, with a hint of the unknown behind the veil of the ordinary.

 

[elvet]

@Victoria Silverwolf Thank you for you review. Beautifully said, as usual.

 

[Starbeast]

I just posted my story. Hopefully I won't flub this challenge, like I did with the 75.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Starbeast: A lively pastiche, with a droll sense of humor to add to its freewheeling imagination.

 

[Phyrebrat]

don't normally enter 300, the quality of the entries are amazing and I'm terrified of lowering the tone.

Nixie! Don’t say that. You’ve never lowered the tone as far as I concerned. Unless we’re all on the vodka or rum.

pH

 

[Calliopenjo]

I got it in. Finally. Yeah.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Calliopenjo: An unusually intimate high fantasy, with a bittersweet flavor.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Peter V: A gentle tale of young love, with a touch of the miraculous.

Jo Zebedee: An imaginative fantasy, with an unusual blend of the ordinary and the magical.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Dan Jones: A rollicking madcap farce, with enough imagination to blow the reader's mind.

 

[Peter V]

What have I just read??

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Parson: A cautionary tale of ill-made assumptions, with a reminder that the universe is more complicated that we think.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

johnnyjet; An intriguingly realistic science fiction story, with a true sense of the Other.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

I really like your story, johnnyjet!

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Perpetual Man: A moving story of loss and remembrance, with insight into what does not change about human nature.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Cory Swanson: A deceptively whimsical bit of fantasy, with a serious philosophical theme at its heart.

 

[mosaix]

Well I'm in. Particularly difficult for me this month. I hadn't got clue until about five days ago, then really had to work at it.

 

[Shyrka]

Ugh, I'm with @mosaix on this one - I've been struggling to get into the mood to write for a while and felt like I had zero ideas for so long. Eventually I hammered out the one I had a few days ago and it came out at 450 words. Disheartened, I was going to give up but had another run at the same story this morning and got it down to 337 which seemed more achievable. After some trimming, I think I've got something that's, well, coherent at least. I missed this month's 75 due to lack of inspiration so I'm just glad to have got something in for the 300.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Well, I'm in. Blank mind for the whole month but had a last minute idea and went with it for better or for worse. Now to read the others since it is now too late to lose my nerve.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Well, I've never left it so late before, actually making edits and tidying up on deadline day, but I managed it, just