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A while back we had a post from Martin about The Artist’s Eye, and to seek the beautiful in the ordinary everyday.

For the next two weeks, that’s exactly what we’re doing.

 

The Prompt: Write a story where you bring out the beauty of something ordinary in a very dramatic setting.

The Dates: Monday 17th – Monday 1st

The Judge: Jane Maree (aka, your guildmaster)

 

Same drill as always.

1. We brainstorm on this topic (NOT in the doc). We decide on the story concept, choose characters, etc.
2. Someone volunteers and writes a rough first draft in this google doc HERE. You can each add your ideas into the story and help once the first draft is written. (NOTE: the scene has to be under 2,500 words)
3. We edit. We polish. We make sure that this is the best we can make it. (Using the Suggest Edits mode.) And we totally nail this item of beauty!

 

I personally loooove bringing out little details and bits of aesthetic in stories. 😍 Sometimes, it’s the way that some small, normally insignificant thing is raised up that makes it the most amazing of them all, and completely binds a story together with that one motif.

 

I want to see what thoughts you guys have, and woot! I reckon you’ll do stellar in this! (Actually, you’d better try to, because I don’t want Jane accusing me of sabotage. 😜)

 

So, what are the thoughts of the Meerkats?

 

@esther-sears
@parker
@caleb-e-king
@jessi-rae
@theswordinthebook
@selah-chelyah
@thewirelessblade
@fctait
@professorsjb
@katthewriter
@lightning-spider
@skye
@mairin-atha
@e-b-raulands
@jillifish
@dakota
@brooka3
@scarletimmortalized
@joseph_darkgrate
@nicoleg
@theinconceivable1
@elizabeth
@ellen-blanc
@ashira
@moonlighting-novelist