It’s our writers get together next week, next Wednesday, so I’ve three days to think of something to write for a rather tricky brief. I actually do like writing to a challenging challenge, something which pushes me a little – hence my self-imposed task of writing twenty pieces from a randomly generated list. The next on that list, by the way, is ‘square’. So back to the writing group challenge: to write something completely different, maybe from a list of genres (I must check) fantasy, other worldly, sci-fi, historical etc.
When I was young, particularly when I was still at school, a lot of my reading was sci-fi – fantasy as a named genre didn’t really exist although of course it actually did. ‘Frankenstein’, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, even some of Rider Haggard. When Tolkien’s stories were published and became popular that maybe thought of fantasy becoming ‘a thing’. Could I write a fantasy? I think I would struggle. So other worldly? I have written a few stories which I guess could be fitted into that classification, but I don’t think they were among my best. Historical? Very tricky! I wrote a very short story about a Saxon whose family were killed by Norman invaders and he took a bloody revenge upon them. So writing something new in any of these categories will indeed be a challenge – but of course that is one of the points of being in a writing group – the challenge!
A Christmas fantasy: https://loiselsden.com/2019/12/16/green-a-christmas-tale/
A riverside walk: https://loiselsden.com/2019/11/02/green-2/
Historical: https://loiselsden.com/2019/09/24/32730/
Lois Elsden 