I’ve been working on my Miska story for class, and as such have more material for you. Some of it is rewritten old stuff, some of it is new. I think I’ve done a better job of firming up her voice, and showing off her life. I hope you enjoy it!
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Writing Exercise: Experimental Miska Piece
In the course of writing an exercise piece for class, I ended up writing what might work as a short scene for my Miska story. It’s a bit odd, given that I changed narration style, but the core conflict feels right. I hope you enjoy it!
Middle Grade Character Introductions
Part of my homework for this week was to write a “two page” character intro for an engaging Middle Grade character. I dislike “pages” as a measure of length when I’m writing, since I don’t use Word and see no reason to change that, but that translates to roughly 500 words. Of course, I wrote one and wasn’t satisfied, so now I have two that I’m not totally satisfied with. I feel like they do a better job of introducing conflict and drama than they do of introducing a particular character, if only because I have little tolerance for writing an opening scene that doesn’t start something.
In any case, here’s two Middle Grade scenes presented back-to-back, with no real relation between the two. Oh, yes, and one of them is actually about Jerome from my Elven Progenitors setting. Enjoy!
Story Snippet: The Sequel to Rum Luck, pt 1
Today I have the beginning to a sequel for you, a continuation of the story I started in Rum Luck (rough draft of that story can be found here). If you like Andre and Jerome, you’re in for a treat. It does end rather abruptly, but there’ll probably be more soon. Read on, and enjoy!
Flash Fiction: Characters in 250 words or less
Like it says in the title, this week’s flash fiction challenge is to create characters and convey them in 250 words or less. I’ve had a few knocking around in my head recently, and I decided to let two of them out. I’ve already written stories about both of them before, which you can find (amongst others) right here.
Miska, snippet 3
Two previous scenes with Miska are up so far, here and here. Let me know if you like this!
Also, I’m going to be on hiatus next week; I’ll be working for an awesome theater camp in upstate New York (or as one of my friends calls it, “Narnia”), and I’ll be way too busy to post anything and probably won’t have access to the internet anyway!
Enjoy some more Miska after the break.
More Miska
Last week I gave you a story about Miska, who wants to leave home for the sea. Here’s a little bit more for you, maybe not directly after the previous piece but definitely following it.
Enjoy!
Miska, The Girl Who’d Be A Sailor
Miska is a character who’s shown up in several of my drafts of various stories in the Elven Progenitors universe for a while now. She started off as a secondary character in the backstory of another secondary character, but quickly took on a life of her own in my imagination. I always wanted to find out how she’d come to be where she was, and I tried, again and again, to write it. But every time I tried, I lost interest within a few pages. I was just dead *bored* with what I was writing, which I took to be a bad sign. I tried, and tried, and eventually I gave up and put the story on the backburner, but yesterday I had an epiphany and started writing down notes like mad. My first scene based on those notes follows. It turns out, I wasn’t going back far enough; I needed to see how it was that Miska, the Pirate Queen, went to sea in the first place…
Flash Fiction: Her Maritime Scowl
This is a bit late, but this week’s (last week’s?) flash fiction from Terribleminds involved using a randomly generated phrase. I got “maritime scowl.” This is what followed…
Flash Fiction: The First Is The Worst
This week’s flash fiction challenge from Chuck Wendig involved a 1000 word story that starts with a dead body. I ended up with this piece without even knowing where I was going, but perhaps you’ll like it. In case you’re wondering about the setting, I think it takes place in my Elven Progenitors story-world (though I still feel like it desperately needs a punchier name).
Enjoy!
Fistful of Wits 