I've uploaded...

[panik]

TS by BS to the website.

Don't hate me.

*G*

And I've been writing!  yay. Only 1,850 words - a fantasy story for a competition. I don't suppose it's any good. It's not at all my usual thing - I have a horrid feeling it could be construed as magical-realism (yeah; shit! I know... O:) but hey ho; it was just an exercise really, to try and get me writing again and it seems to have done the trick. Which is good. It's the first thing I've written in weeks.

Comments

what's so bad about magical-realism?

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Nothing per se (though I personally find a lot of it tedious) - I used to read a lot of S. American m-r lit. And nothing wrong with Sci Fi - at least soft SF; I tend to dislike the stuff with too much pseudo-science and idiot names for everyone. I'm currently re-reading my way through the entire back catalogue of EDAs (Eighth Doctor Adventures). I have to say, anything with elves leaves me colder than an arse at an Arctic picnic.

Never thought I'd write anything so consciously 'magical' though. It's probably bollocks. (o:

Re: what's so bad about magical-realism?

[snycock.livejournal.com]

I used to read a lot of S. American m-r lit

Ah, I see what you mean, like Isabel Allende and The House of the Spirits? I read that, too, and didn't love it. Tedious is a good word. And I struggled through about half of One Hundred Years of Solitude before I gave up (although that was a long time ago, when I was in high school; maybe I'd like it better, now). But I don't feel like that genre has a lot in common with the fantasy stuff that I like.

I have to say, anything with elves leaves me colder than an arse at an Arctic picnic.

::snort:: Too much Tolkien, eh?