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Someone reviewed a poem I wrote a few years ago, and when I read it I had to smile. I had forgotten about "A Trick of the Morning Light" , but when I reread it, I remembered the tree. It was a stone pine tree that looked like an Ent-wife at certain times of the year. When I finished reading the poem, I remembered "Scarlet Stone" .
Both the poem and the story were inspired by items I found in the front yard of a house I used to live in. The rock and the tree were just ordinary things in my personal surroundings. There was nothing special about them until made one of them an ent-wife and the other a spy from another planet.
Are there things in your home or yard that could be used as the protagonist or the antagonist of a story or poem? Try this exercise: Get up, walk through your house, go outside and walk through your yard or down the street. Take notice of anything--ordinary or unusual--that catches your attention. Write a description of it, so that you can incorporate it into a science fiction or fantasy story or poem.
Have you ever looked at an item--such as a rock, tree, or some ordinary utensil--in your immediate surroundings and transformed it into a character in a story? If so, please submit it to the fantasy newsletter. If not, try the exercise in the previous paragraph, write a story about it, and submit it to the newsletter. Deadline: September 18, 2023. Content rating: 18+.
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NaNoNette  writes: I have used mercenaries in my Fantasy stories, but I didn't see the need to research them. I understand that the official definition of mercenary is that of an illegitimate combatant who go after civilians for money. In movies, mercenaries are often not depicted as part of a group, but instead as extra-judicial operatives who get things done. Current examples on Netflix are The Gray Man and the two Extraction movies. Those are closer to the mercenaries that I write.
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