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Trollheart
Nothing Wicked This Way Comes...
I'm carefully and obsessively sticking down the tape as I wrap my story up before sending it on its way. I've heard nasty stories of parcel fairies who grab anything that is even the slightest bit open and use the parcels for... well, you wouldn't want your story used as one, let's just say. Better safe than sorry, so apologies Alice if you have to spend some time opening it. Hopefully it'll be worth it.
Joshua Jones
When all is said and done, all's quiet and boring.
Parcel fairies are nearly as horrific creatures as muses... they lure you in with their pixie antics and cuteness then WHAM!
(re: your Peter V drawing) Definitely a bit of Raoul Dufy influence creeping in there Alice. Well done
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Ok, so the way this is feeling, it wants to be a novel. I didn't set out to do anything grand, it just feels like there is a lot to explore.
Annoyingly I am already preferring what it could become more than my second novel, which is proving a challenge at the moment. Maybe I could use it as the basis for one in the future, just so long as I don't start trying to write two at once.
I need self discipline to make this as concise as possible - when you start thinking chapter plan for a short story, you are in trouble!
Still under 200 words though
Annoyingly I am already preferring what it could become more than my second novel, which is proving a challenge at the moment. Maybe I could use it as the basis for one in the future, just so long as I don't start trying to write two at once.
I need self discipline to make this as concise as possible - when you start thinking chapter plan for a short story, you are in trouble!
Still under 200 words though
I haven't started. Whip me if you'd like.
Mad Alice
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Parcel fairies are notoriously in collusion with the bog roll fairies so I applaud your caution.
Mad Alice
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I shall send around the moggie minion army forthwith, to stare at you day and night, and sleep in piles in front of your mirrors until your muse can no longer gaze abstractedly at her own reflection and needs must offer you some story inspiration or forever go about in shame with un-flat-ironed hair.
Be warned. The moggies steal cheese.
Mad Alice
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If you can whip off three chapters before Sunday angry robot is having an open submission.
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Bamph!
There they are. Flying off through the ether with a cohort of bog roll fairies, carrying off your parcel. Dawn and dusk are the worst times for the atracks of course. The royal mail dragons enforcers have those dodgy eyes that cant see in the gloaming evening and dawning.
Trollheart
Nothing Wicked This Way Comes...
If you send your moggie minions over to me (I'll pay their airfare to Ireland, bejaysus!) my cat Eddie has promised to fit them all out with top hats/bonnets (depending on gender and/or inclination) and get them all into the opera for free.
Mind you, I'm not sure he's thought this one through... but that's Eddie for you. A prince among cats, but a duffer among scholars. SO cute though!
Mind you, I'm not sure he's thought this one through... but that's Eddie for you. A prince among cats, but a duffer among scholars. SO cute though!
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No airfare needed as all the best Moggie minions have their own furry little wings.
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Quite all Right! The party is still in full swing. We saved you a beaker of mystery punch. If you dont get a hangover from the various parts of the punch it's a complete mystery. (I think perhaps adding the contents of that flask I found under the stairs wrapped in a 1968 grateful dead tour shirt may have been a bit of a mistake.)
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And here is your drawing!
It's in pencil. Mainly because my black pen rolled under the dresser. Too far in to reach and I couldn't find the broom to fish it out with. So it needs a bit of touching up.
Guttersnipe
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@Mad Alice Thank you! Nicely done!
Trollheart
Nothing Wicked This Way Comes...
Chucking out time at Fairydust is also a bad time for them. I mean, we've all seen it. They come staggering out of the nightclub, quite obviously high on pixie weed or cowslip powder or god knows what all, and one of them (the drunkest or most high, usually) will turn to the others and slur "RRrrrigght. Wot way home? I'm cream crackered. Hey! Who wants to steal some parcels?"
Followed by the inevitable round of high fives (most of which miss because, you know, they're drunk and/or high) and then the early morning raid on the post office. Menaces, really. Something ought to be done. Where's a bumble beadle when you need one, that's what I say!
OMG TOTAL CUTE OVERLOAAAAAAAD! Are they all yours? Details, details please!
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Wow, I'm out of control. Over 3,00 words done and it looks like it'll end up nearly twice that when I'm finished. Still a little uncertain about the ending though. We shall see...
Mad Alice
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Now that's a true secret, where a Moggie gets his wings.Chucking out time at Fairydust is also a bad time for them. I mean, we've all seen it. They come staggering out of the nightclub, quite obviously high on pixie weed or cowslip powder or god knows what all, and one of them (the drunkest or most high, usually) will turn to the others and slur "RRrrrigght. Wot way home? I'm cream crackered. Hey! Who wants to steal some parcels?"
Followed by the inevitable round of high fives (most of which miss because, you know, they're drunk and/or high) and then the early morning raid on the post office. Menaces, really. Something ought to be done. Where's a bumble beadle when you need one, that's what I say!
OMG TOTAL CUTE OVERLOAAAAAAAD! Are they all yours? Details, details please!
I might be persuaded to tell the story though for a certain troll perhaps.
Joshua Jones
When all is said and done, all's quiet and boring.
You mean to tell me there are problems afoot in the world? This year seems like a perfect dystopian world, formerly only known in SF circles. Now, everyone gets to share the fun!
Mad Alice
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I'm going to put up the guessing paragraph thread very very soon.
There will be one important change from the usual methodology which will be explained in thread.
If you have a paragraph ready you can send it to me at any time. If your would like to share another brilliant paragraph you have written from something other then your assignment, feel free to send them on.
There will be one important change from the usual methodology which will be explained in thread.
If you have a paragraph ready you can send it to me at any time. If your would like to share another brilliant paragraph you have written from something other then your assignment, feel free to send them on.
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