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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dlsharrock" data-source="post: 4280654" data-attributes="member: 55833">[SBLOCK=responses to words/judge free zone]I've never been very good at conforming <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I would also like to write with you, tadk, as I think we both have similar ideas about experimentation. Thanks for your kind words and expletives deleted <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Thanks. And yes, it's hard to interpret with the first read. The epic style fits the mythology, I felt, though I'm sure it will cause the judges annoyance as it requires a couple read throughs and demands a bit more concentration on the reader's part than my previous story. Annoyance wasn't my intention, though. I'm more interested in using CDM as a platform for experimentation, as you observed. I love the time delay in some ways, as it sometimes forces the writer to throw their cards in the air and just write. On the other hand, I could protract this into a book quite easily. Though, I don't think anyone would read it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The pictures were all used, though in some cases they provide a general feel rather than specifically point at single phrases. This is definitely the case with the fantasy image, which provided the other-worldly, apocalyptic, obsidien towers imagery. The girl with the laptop is seen at the end of the prophecy as the alternate incarnation of the Queen of Carvings and the soothsaying Shadow of the story is her laptop giving her news of impending armageddon. I'm probably guilty of way-pointing, but given the hour time limit, I think it could have been worse.Best of luck Berandor (between you and me, I think you'll walk it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)[/SBLOCK]Still suffering from busy lifestyle and other commitments, but intend to print and read the other stories in my lunch hour.</blockquote>

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