I tried a change from weekly to monthly assignments and from quotations to photographs but to no avail. So - to highlight my own lack of imagination - I shall now combine the two in the vain hope that one or more of you will tell me a story.
For May's assignment you have a choice between basing your story on my chosen photograph or on a specific line from literature. If you're really up for it you could try both, either singly or together.
Also, the deadline will be two weeks from today, to give you less time to forget all about it.
This assignment's photograph is another one I took in Paris, though with no Eiffel Tower in it you could of course base your story anywhere.
If you don't fancy the photograph, the alternative is a quotation is from Jorge Luis Borges' short story, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and it is: "Some limited and waning memory of Herbert Ashe, an engineer for the Southern Railway Line, still lingers in the hotel at Androgué, among the effusive honeysuckle vines and in the illusory depths of the mirrors."
The rules are the same as they've always been. Five hundred words - no more and no less - inspired by and incorporating either the quotation or reference to the photograph.
Oh, and don't rely on Word's dumb word count as it counts "…" among other punctuation as a word. And don't write any sentences as confusing as that one, either.
I've already written one story based on the photograph, which you can find in the usual place, should you wish.
Gird your pencils and go for it.
2 comments:
Oh you and your guilt trips! Here: http://toadberry500.blogspot.com/2011/05/honeysuckle-twins.html
Woohoo!
A brilliant story, Vanda. Thank you so much. It'll take star billing when I post the results in a couple of weeks.
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