A rec, a regret and a challenge...

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I stumbled across a link to this webcomic this afternoon and went through the entire archive in one gleeful setting. It's the story of a young girl called Antimony Carver, who's just started Year Seven at Gunnerkrigg Court, which is the sort of boarding school Mervyn Peake might have designed. The art is gorgeous, and the characters are great - I particularly love Reynardine, the sarcastic demon, and Mr Eglamore, the PE teacher/dragon slayer. Antimony/Annie deals with the problems she faces with a mixture of cool cleverness and stubbornness, and her social awkwardness (she grew up in a hospital and has never met anyone her own age) is endearing. Go, read it.



Dolores got rejected by Fantasy Magazine. :( Oh, well, I still have two other pieces out there, which seems to be the way to go. A rejection seems like less of a big deal when it's only one story among many. I need to take some time over half term to edit some of my other shorts, though.




I came across this meme through a link on the Creators' Forum over at Girl-Wonder.org. That version is for artists, but I thought it would be fun to do a writerly version too. So, I challenge you to choose one of your characters and describe them in each of the following moods:

Happy
Sad
Pleased
Angry
Confused
Tired
Shocked/Surprised
Irritated
WTF!
Triumph
Fear
Bereft
Flirty
Serious
Silly
Hollow/Blank
Incredulous
Confident
Fierce
Despondant
Drunk
Rage
Sarcastic
Disgusted
Ill

Obviously it's up to you how long you want to make each description. I'll be going for no more than a few sentences each.


Happy Saturday ^_^