{"id":1174,"date":"2011-07-30T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:34:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:34:22","slug":"scribbled-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Scribbled Bits…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fantasy Magazine<\/i> is amazing as a resource, and I really enjoy going back and rereading old issues for fun and to provoke thoughts. Most recently I was reading about how steampunk has overwritten fantasy tropes in the May issue<\/a>. (Since I am once again attempting a fantasy\/fairy tale kind of thing, and in our writing group we were recently discussing the Hero’s Journey, this trope-twisting struck a chord.) The piece on automatons was really, really<\/a> cool.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the reprint of Kelly Link’s<\/a> Swans<\/i>, which was excerpted from Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales<\/i>, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling. Two other nonfiction essays were helpful, one on the princess thing – and how despite Disney<\/a> and how the princess is still forming and informing a lot of fantasy fiction. (You may not agree), and the other on unicorns. Other than the people who<\/a> write about them fighting zombies, they did, once upon a time, have literary significance. <\/p>\n

And for you great writers of bad prose, the Bulwer-Lytton contest results are in. Oh, be so afraid. Winner: SciFi<\/a> Category: <\/p>\n

“Morgan \u2018Bamboo\u2019 Barnes, Star Pilot of the Galaxia (flagship of the Solar Brigade), accepted an hors d\u2019oeuvre from the triangular-shaped platter offered to him from the Princess Qwillia\u2014lavender-skinned she was and busty, with two of her four eyes what Barnes called \u2018bedroom eyes\u2019\u2014and marveled at how on her planet, Chlamydia-5, these snacks were called \u2018Hi-Dee-Hoes\u2019 but on Earth they were simply called Ritz Crackers with Velveeta.” <\/i><\/p>\n

Greg Homer
Placerville, CA <\/p>\n

Happy Weekend to all of you scribblers and readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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