All Posts Tagged With: "fantasy"

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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 34

Anything goes Sundays:
This past weekend at Balticon made me think a lot about my writing, my range, etc. Not going anywhere with this, yet, just sayin.
But I thought a lot on the drive home about the unreliable narrator, and started thinking about a girl who convinces herself she’s a mythical creature. Not on a mentally [...]

25May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 4 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 21

Character sketches Mondays
Prophesy is a funny thing. So when Prince Lawrence was visited by the local seer on his thirteenth birthday, he was dismayed to find out he is not the Chosen One, or a Hero, or the Savior. He was destined to be a good and fair king during the time of peace his [...]

12May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 20

Anything goes Sundays
So on the ride home I was thinking about the plotlines, mainly thinking about the whole hide-the-important-thing-inside-a-living-person plotline. And that’s been done. it’s tired.
But what if we twist it? What if we have a king who needs to hide something. Doesn’t matter what. it’s a Macguffin. We’ll worry about that later. But [...]

11May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 4 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 19

First Sentence Saturdays:
Old Kelly had been in prison for so long that she didn’t even remember why she was there, but when the King summoned her from her dark cell, he reminded her.
I thought about Old Kelly a lot on the drive up to Baltimore, wondering what her crime had been, wondering how old she [...]

10May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued