DISCUSSION THREAD -- JUNE 2022 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

Congratulations Christine Wheelwright. Well deserved. A lot of really great entries and a fun theme to explore.

Thank you for the mentions and shortlists. Much appreciated. And very big thanks of course to TheJudge and Therapist for the votes.
 
Ok… a last minute vote which is a nice surprise for me.

My thanks to Crystal Haven, Luiglin, M Robert Gibson and Bren G – any vote is great, four is simply mind blowing. Thanks to all the mentions and listings as well, these are all greatly appreciated. I thought I had a nice ending to my entry this month but I had my doubts about nailing the theme as I had only a passing reference to a plant, and after the initial excitement of posting had faded I had my doubts about my entry. Far too late of course, and I’m sure we’ve all had 75 word doubts after posting and I usually do, so I’m very happy indeed with the final outcome. Especially as plants and tress had me stumped for days and definitely at the far end of the scale from RAY GUNS where I usually live and play.

And finally well done Christine Wheelwright, and you can have a pitchfork of your choice anytime you like.
 
While the cool reception in this month’s challenge was certainly due to other factors, my entry also had a strong regional component that may have made it inaccessible to some readers, so I’d like to provide a bit of explanation:

Vedauwoo (pronounced vee-duh-voo) is a pile of rocks located between Laramie and Cheyenne in SE Wyoming, USA. The name is purported to be derived from an Arapahoe word meaning “earth-born”, and was probably a place of spiritual significance for the local Native American tribes.

Vedauwoo - Wikipedia

I went to college in Laramie and we spent a lot of time at Vedauwoo doing, um, college things. I had a few religious experiences with trees doing some of those, um, college things, so the piece is a combination of my personal reverence for trees (dirty tree-hugging hippy!) and local Native American folklore.

Character name came from an Arapahoe dictionary. Hii3eiciibit (roughly pronounced hee-thay-jee-bid? according to the dictionary) and is part of the phrase “the tree has roots.”

https://homewitharapaho.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/arapaho-dictionary1.pdf

I was looking to pique some interest in North American Native American culture and the use of plants with certain “properties” as a method of achieving various levels of spiritual enlightenment.

Thanks for reading!
 
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Thanks to all who mentioned my entry :giggle: I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at the movie premiere.


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Well done @Christine Wheelwright

Does anyone else ever get an idea in their head, but no matter how much you push and pull it, chisel away, mould it, bend it, shape it, it just doesn't work, and by the time you admit it to yourself, you realise there's only two days left until the deadline, no time for a new one, so you just end up posting your misshapen effort anyway?
Yeah, that was me this month :rolleyes:
 
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