Day 11
Dig deeper: What is one leap into the dark, one
commitment with the unknown-however small-you feel you need to take in order to
grow wings? Not sure I know the answer to this. Took a huge leap into the
little known in April and moved from my home state to a new state to begin a
new chapter of my life. So, not looking for any leaps right now, just trying to
settle in.
Writing Prompt: Today, try a new genre, style of
writing or topic that you’re uncomfortable with. Anything goes (as far as style
or subject)-as long as it stretches your comfort zone. Feel the growth pain.
You don’t have to stay there long, but at least give the uncomfortable unknown
a try.
This is difficult, I’ve written, poetry, self-help,
mystery, thriller, romance, flash fiction, children’s, short story, novella,
novel, fairy tales, not sure what’s left. I don’t write Science fiction, I don’t
understand the genre. I’m not other world in that aliens and zombies don’t
appeal to me. Going to have to think about this and get back to you.
Reading something by someone else gave me an idea on
how to start.
Walking through the drafty castle, Elspeth held her
candle high. Her bare feet made no sound on the cold floors. She had to get away.
It was necessary to warn her father’s returning army of the ambush which
awaited them.
She had tucked her hair up under a dark hat borrowed
from a page and dressed as a page to the king. Her father, King John Drummond had
set out to fight a clan to the south. A messenger had arrived this morning with
word the King and his army would return victorious on the morrow.
While her father had been gone, his step-brother,
Maxwell, had come out from behind his books to take over the castle. It seems,
Maxwell had been waiting for the right time to assert himself. With his rag-tag
friends they had faced little opposition and the men of the King’s guard had
been imprisoned in the dungeon.
Elspeth was on her way to the dungeon to slip out
the underground passage she’d found. Once outside she’s take a hidden boat and
cross the moat. From there she hoped the villagers would help her to find the
King. It wasn’t much of a plan, but it was the best she had.
There were voices ahead…
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