A writing thing

[avevale_intelligencer]

Since I'm still having difficulty writing, I thought I'd lob the ball into your court for a while. The picture is called "A Voice From The Past." That's all I know about it. If you feel the urge, write something about it. You get to decide who this is, who or what they're looking at, where and when this takes place, who's talking, and what happens next. Doesn't have to be long; doesn't have to be clever. When you've done it, you can put it in a comment, or put it somewhere else, or keep it to yourself, as you please. All I ask is that if you do write something, tell me (at least) that you did.

Thank you.

EDIT: I'm so glad people have responded. Thank you all again. The field is still wide open.


I do now have something of my own developing on this image, and I'll post it at some point, if people are interested. And then hopefully I'll be able to get back to Conservatoire. (In the meantime, of course, if anyone is interested in the story but daunted by the number of episodes they've missed, a hiatus like this is an ideal opportunity to catch up...) FURTHER EDIT: and a link would look well about here, wouldn't it? http://www.avevale.org/index.php/episodes-plays/10-epsodes-plays/31-journey-to-conservatoire

Comments

[themis1.livejournal.com]

OK, I have some thoughts. I will sleep on them.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

[eintx.livejournal.com]

Haven't written anything on it yet, but I think I will.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[jahura.livejournal.com]

And yet, it was now in this very moment I had realized that I had blocked it out - waved it off as a dream. I did not know whom the shadowy figure was, only that it meant no harm and it knew me well. I even smiled and said hello in friendly greeting. I now know why it did not respond. Even if I could, the tables had at last turned and it was she who was the shade and not I.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Nicely done!

[jahura.livejournal.com]

Meh. B-minus work. Lazy, hastily done, and hardly an original idea. I could do a lot better (you know this), but thank you!

[alun dudek (from livejournal.com)]

She looked at me with an arched eyebrow.

"OK, Professor Challenger, we've got it back into the box. And you've straighten out the room so your landlady doesn't notice anything wrong.

"But what am I supposed to do now? Sit on it until it dies of starvation? And if I do, what will your landlady make of my being here?"

-- Sorry I can't think of anything longer or more original.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

That's fine. The point is to write something, to see what the image inspires. You've got the germ of a story there which (if continued) might well develop originality as well as length. I'm quite sure that many an A-plus tale, to borrow Jahura's metaphor, has started from a B-minus paragraph, or worse. A lot of mine have. (Who said "it shows"?) :)