FireLance
Legend
Congratulations to Piratecat and thanks to all the judges for their comments. I kind of expected the outcome - I wasn't too happy with my entry this time round, either. As Berandor correctly surmised, it was a combination of the time limit, and Real Life throwing me a curveball about halfway through the writing process.
But just to satisfy Berandor's curiosity, the backstory that I did not manage to write was as follows: the blob managed to escape because its mind was too alien and Alistar could not control it quickly enough. It fled into the streets and remembered that it had moved through "stone" to get here. It thus tried to move through every large "stone" it could find and only succeeded in breaking the glass of Cailo's shop and knocking down the statue in Troll Park. Goff is familiar with the blobs because he has been studying them with Alistar. The Tale of the Bridge was a morality play about summoning demons (the world's equivalent of "Faust"). It was what gave Alistar the idea to summon creatures from other worlds in the first place. And, the fact that the blobs are shapechangers would allow Alistar to resume his humanoid form.
Participating in this contest has been a great experience, though stressful at times. It has really brought home the point (to me, at least) that ideas are a dime a dozen, but actually writing them out in a way that flows well and makes sense is hard. If nothing else, I'm determined to work on my writing skills in the next year, so that I won't have to re-work every other sentence three or four times before I'm happy with it.
And now, I'm off to drown my sorrows in the RotK EE DVD that I picked up over lunch
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But just to satisfy Berandor's curiosity, the backstory that I did not manage to write was as follows: the blob managed to escape because its mind was too alien and Alistar could not control it quickly enough. It fled into the streets and remembered that it had moved through "stone" to get here. It thus tried to move through every large "stone" it could find and only succeeded in breaking the glass of Cailo's shop and knocking down the statue in Troll Park. Goff is familiar with the blobs because he has been studying them with Alistar. The Tale of the Bridge was a morality play about summoning demons (the world's equivalent of "Faust"). It was what gave Alistar the idea to summon creatures from other worlds in the first place. And, the fact that the blobs are shapechangers would allow Alistar to resume his humanoid form.
Participating in this contest has been a great experience, though stressful at times. It has really brought home the point (to me, at least) that ideas are a dime a dozen, but actually writing them out in a way that flows well and makes sense is hard. If nothing else, I'm determined to work on my writing skills in the next year, so that I won't have to re-work every other sentence three or four times before I'm happy with it.
And now, I'm off to drown my sorrows in the RotK EE DVD that I picked up over lunch
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