Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:36:00 -0500 From: "the rags of time..." Subject: [WRITERS] EXERCISE: To Trip the Dark Fantasy? (was: Re: [WRITERS] Fill: Dark Fantasy) At 05:10 PM 9/21/98 +1000, Mat Ward wrote: :)Dark Fantasy eh? For some reason that conjures up an image thusly: :) :)"By the sweat soaked beard of Haruk! Am I expected to conquer this dungeon :)with no light?" That's the line. Start right there, with the exclamation of a person in a dark dungeon, and write on... tell us about Haruk, and why that beard is sweaty? Why are we in a dungeon, and why in the dark? Go on until you reach the end. Revise and polish... Then send out the words, that the dark fantasy gave rise to the boos? "...I wander'd off by myself In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." Walt Whitman tink