The Snowflake Chronicles

Newsletter for March (Deadline 3/23/15 8:59 am PDT)

01. Mr. Green
02. Do the Math
03. Groundhog
04. The Sweetest Sound
05. Myth of the Bringer of Light

Title

Feeding Your Characters Moods

Second Title

How does food affect the moods of your protagonist or antagonist?

What Newsletter about

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Does food have an affect on your mood? If the answer is yes then it could also have an affect on the mood of one or more of your characters.

Letter from the editor

I had a bit of a scare a week ago. I became extremely depressed, much more depressed then was normal for me. I could not concentrate on writing or reading and I just anted to sit down and cry. It finally passed, but it took a bit longer then normal. Afterwards I got to thinking about what I was doing before the depression struck. I had been consuming or rather over consuming an item I purchased that I had never tasted before. I bought the item without reading the ingredients on the label. I read and researched the ingredients on the label and realized that one ingredients was probably what caused the issue.

I then started thinking about a story I am writing. I ask "Could the food my protagonist ate have an affect on his mood?" If the answer to that question is yes then it could potentially have an affect on the plot because the plot revolves around the character. How would the food my character eat affect his mood? Would it cause him to be depressed? Could the food have the opposite affect on my character's mood?

Lack of food can be a motivating factor in a person's life. Overeating or eating the wrong types of food can affect a person's physical health. I appears to make sense that food could have an affect on a person's moods. If this is the case then food could affect the mood of the protagonist or antagonist, which means it could be used in the story to help carry the plot forward. I will have to do a little more research on just how foods affect a person's moods.

Do you think food could have an affect of the mood of your characters? How would you incorporate it in your story? I challenge you to write a story between 300 to 1,000 words about the affect food has on the protagonist or antagonist. The content rating should be 18 or less. Submit the Item ID in the comment section of the newsletter by Friday, April 17. I will review each story and post as many as possible in the following newsletters.

Editors' Picks

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Excerpt: He asked them to remain silent but as always, it was futile. The classroom's collective chatting further proved to Mr. Green that his career choice was a farce. Teaching a class on the subject of cryptozoology was beginning to quench Mr. Green's passion on the topic. Although he had always had a great interest in the subject and had fought hard for the college to allow him share his interest, he was beginning to doubt his vocation. He was not entirely a believer in these fantastical creatures, quite simply, he just enjoyed the notion of living in a more magical and mysterious world. He found it much more preferable than that of the monotonous world of cold hard science.

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Excerpt: “They don't exist! You couldn't master the mechanics anyway. You suck at math.”

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Excerpt: This ground hog came from another poem

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Excerpt: I awoke last month to a ubiquitous ring, as did the world. The skies were filled with a subtle noise, barely audible with an omniscient manner. Thereafter, the radios would sound mainly static, only occasionally letting intended frequencies through. The televisions drew their pixels in a scrambled and aimless fashion, abstract and indiscernible, though an invention would be made a couple weeks after the ringing first occurred that would piece together the pixels at ten frames per second, allowing a limited, but working view of television broadcasts. It was something in our world of nothing.

Myth of the Bringer of Light  (E) details the beginning of the dark age and the man who brought light back into the world. #2030731 by sundog

Excerpt: There was an age when darkness filled the world. A darkness so black that it blotted out the sun; light could not overcome. Men could not escape it and the animals where overpowered by it, becoming monsters that had long been forgotten. This darkness lasted 100 years, where the blood red moon controlled both day and night, in which time the world turned sour. The crops that the land produced where poisonous and the creatures birthed where fowl, men turned in dark ways and the world was almost without hope.

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"Fantasy Newsletter (February 25, 2015)" 

Callie hears Angels these days writes: I think being nosy is a built in part of a writer's structure. ( What makes this person act that way? I wonder what someone else would say. Under these circumstances). I believe we writers are the worlds true actors, because we must believe what our fictional characters are saying. Thanks for the great article. I really enjoyed it.

Quick-Quill writes: Life is more interesting than fiction at times. My detective novel is still a work in progress. After writing the story, I was contacted here on WDc by a man who read my draft I'd given to the detective who worked the case. this man is dedicated to finding what really happened. He's shared with me his new discoveries and even tries to connect crime in the same era to what happened. The more he's found out out the more I can add to my story. I've not done a rewrite on it until I thing he's connected a few more dots I can use to enhance my plot. Its a fiction based on fact and its an unsolved Murder. Most of the people are dead now, but we believe the ones who casued the event are alive or nearly so. Some could be dead. by now. It happened in the winter of 1958.


ebeaklor writes: Sometimes inspiration comes in surprising forms. Seeing something with fresh eyes, considering events from a unique viewpoint. Always consider "what if?" And apply that to observations of people and events. Humanity and our society are both simple and complex. Most importantly, think of what elements of human nature or society affect you. What makes you say "wow".