I'd like you to give a welcome to this month's drollerie guest, Angela Korra'ti! Stay tuned...
Jess
For this month on the Drollerie Press Blog Tour, the topic is "summer". We all have been writing on various aspects of the season: what role it plays in our various stories, or how it may influence our writing. For my own part, I'd like to give you all a glimpse of the summer of 1989, the toughest summer that a young Warder-to-be, Christopher MacSimidh, had faced to date in his entire life--and which would stay with him up until the events of _Faerie Blood_.
Thanks for reading, all!
Anna
Christopher MacSimidh, Winnipeg, Manitoba, July 1989
The height of summer should have been a thing of glory. July sunshine slanted off the buildings of downtown Winnipeg, gilding them all in light, and countless tiny fragments of radiance glimmered along the surface of the Assiniboine River. Christopher saw none of it. Even tempered by the breeze off the river, the sun's heat bore down upon his head, in league with his sour mood for all of its brilliance. His feet hurt in their old shoes after hours of walking the docks in the...
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Been writing more and more at helium.com, which is good; trying for $25 at least by the end of the month which will get that to me by the month after. The good thing is that now when they do contests, they do contests for the creative writers there too!
So, this month, I'm working on their creative writing short story contest. So far doing pretty well, if I say so -- I even snuck a Kritter story in, heh heh... and there's one or two characters I've used for stories today that I'm pretty sure I'll use again somewhere.
At least I'm putting the current state of insomnia to good use!
http://writing-contests.helium.com/marketingcontest/leaderboard/825?cms=creative-writing
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