But I've still been writing! I'm working on a fairy tale right now (based on another grimms. yeah I know I'm cool.) but it's got a different twist because I'm writing it in verse. If you've never read a poem novel, I can suggest some absolutely fabulous ones. It's a very different style and I'm trying it out because I've always wanted to. I'm not 100% sure it's working/I'm doing it right, but Kelia likes it soo... heh.
This is an excerpt from the middle, and you guys will have absolutely no idea what's going on. :D But I hope it will make you want to read more. And I will explain if you ask me what's going on!
I am not aware
When it happens
Or how it happens
All I know
Is I am heading
Back to the forest
With breakfast for two
That I earned myself
When a group
Of bored young soldiers
Surround me
Crowd around
Until I’m forced to halt.
“Where’d you get
The food, boy?”
One says, threatening.
“Steal it, didn’t you?”
“No! I earned it.
You can ask the baker
He’ll tell you its true.”
My heart is pounding
A bad taste
In my mouth
This will not end well.
“We’ll see about that,”
A guard leers.
“Give me a piece of that,”
A scrawny one
Grabs the cheese
Out of my hands.
“Hey!” I protest.
“My sister
Is hungry.”
“Sister?” the red head
Who stole my cheese
Grins.
“We’ll let you go
If you’d let us come along.
We’d like to meet
This sister of yours.”
Now I am angry
And I feel my eyes
Light with fire.
“You won’t touch her,”
I spit.
“It’s not like
You could really stop us.”
They laugh in my face.
My blood boils
And I push the red head
Sending him stumbling back.
The smiles disappear
From their faces.
“Shouldn’t have done that,
Boy.” They move closer
All at once.
“You can’t just beat me
In the middle of the square,”
I say, trying to mask
My discomfort.
One of the older ones
Smirks.
“You’re right.
Sorry to have
Bothered you.”
He steps out of my way
But I hesitate.
This isn’t right,
I am sure it’s a trap.
“Go on.” He tilts his head.
“Run.”
I don’t know
What else to do
So I walk away
Steps quickening
Despite myself
Until I’m shoving past people
Just trying to get away
And there it is
“Stop, thief!”
And they are chasing
In earnest now.
There is nothing I can do
But run.
Hands grasp at me
But I pull away
Desperate to get back
To my sister
But then they have me
There are too many
And they’re dragging me
Down a tiny alley way.
They slam me against
The stone.
Blood clouds my eyes.
I look up at them
Looming above me
Stand, ready myself
But there are just
Too many
And I end up
Balled up to protect
My broken skin
And finally
There is only black.
Shattered fragments
Pierce my aching skull.
I try to open my eyes
But I can’t
It’s too heavy
This pressure
This pain
Easier to lie still
Let it consume me.
A voice floats
On the edge of my mind
Too far away
I can’t quite grasp it.
“Wake up, wake up.”
Then pain
Different now
So sharp I gasp
As someone lifts me
Carries me
Every step bringing me closer
To a fate
I can’t push away.
I’m not aware
When I’m put down
But voices break through
The wool that’s filled
My head.
“Wren.”
“Oh my God, Wren.”
Leona…
I’m taken away
To a memory
And my mother
Is smiling
Picks little me up
Swings me around
And I laugh.
“Wren wake up!
Come on, you can do this.”
The voice I heard before
Speaks, but it’s so hard
To listen.
The voices fade
In and out.
“Found him…
Horrible guard…
Left for dead.”
“Will he make it?”
“I… he’s lost
a lot of blood.”
“He’s strong.
Wren, come on…”
“I know about you two.”
“What?”
“The curse..
This is the curse.”
“I don’t understand.”
“He’ll die.
You know he will.”
“Who are you?”
“I can help.”
“Please…”
“There’s only one way.”
I struggle
To understand
Leona’s upset.
“There’s got
To be another way!
No… no.”
“You’d let him
Die?”
“Why can’t you
Just heal him?
If you’re powerful
Enough to do
What you say?”
“My master
Will never let
Him go
While you live
Both of you.
This is the only way
I know to save you.”
“He’ll stay himself?
Even if he’s not…”
“Yes he’ll have his mind.
When the curse is broken…”
“I can’t let you.
He would never
Forgive me.”
Voices blur.
It’s getting harder
To breathe.
“Wren?”
My body lurches
In a spasm
I can’t control.
My face is wet
But I don’t know why.
A sound rips the air
An anguished groan
But I don’t
Even realize
It’s coming
From me.
The feeling
Of Leona’s arms
Around me
Begins to fade.
“Do it.”
There is no
White light
For me,
Only pain
As if
My skin
Is being ripped
From my bones
And my eyes
Fly open
And the world
Is shattering
Around me.
So... who else is doing NaNoWriMo? It's almost one month away! I must plannnn.
This post would be longer but it's late and I should be in bed. So I will bid adue for now. Hope you are all doing wonderfully and having great writing adventures. :D
Much love and kisses,
Anna
3 comments:
Alright, this is a little late coming but, better late than never...right?
I love the fact that you're trying to write a story in a different way - I think that is awesome. I've only read two stories before that have been in verse-format (their titles escape me) and I found it very intriguing. It's just not something you seem to come across often.
I was a bit confused because I'm not familiar with the story, but it was really good otherwise. :) I kind of want more ;) lots and lots more :P. You're doing a REALLY good job with it...I think doing something that's new and unfamiliar can always be so difficult...but you're doing really well with this....In the beginning I didn't hear your "voice" as much, if you understand what I mean, but as it went on (beginning about when Wren was running) I was able to hear it again and that's when I really started to like it. :]
And I really want to know what happened to Leona and Wren...(and who they are of course ;) )
Ahhh NaNoWriMo....that both terrifying and lovely accronym. I may come to regret it later but I am doing it. :] I need to get my butt moving though, I just realized today how close November was and how little of my plot I have. I can't believe that I ever jumped in the first year with SP and barely any plot. How did I ever do that? O.O
Do you have any idea of what you're doing for it?? I'm doing a novel of a story that a made up for an RP, which should be fun as I know a handful of the characters really well so far...but I still have a ton I need to get to know. It's an action FBI/cops thing, should be interesting. This time there is absolutely no fairytale bit to it or paranormal....I haven't done a story like this in a LONG time. We'll see how it goes. And depending on how it ends up...I might make it into a Screnzy project.
We'll see. I don't want to get too over my head quite yet ;).
Oh dear. Hmmm...I should post something next but I don't know what! O.o Does anyone have an requests??
I'm glad to see W.R. livening (sp?) up again. :] Does anyone think it needs a celebration make over for such a thing???
*hugs*
Love you all <33333
Lylas!
Katie })i({
WOW. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.
I want more. You don't even know, Anna. I have no idea what story it is, but WOOOOOOOOOOOW.
I'm thrilled for NaNo --- I have no idea what I'm doing, but since I work midnights to eight on weekends, I figure I'll actually have time this year - WOOOOO.
So yeah. Anyway. I'm thinking maybe something surreal, because, let's face it, reality gets boring. :/ It's so much easier to have people fall into a new dimension or something rather than deal with like... boy drama or something. I mean. NEW DIMENSION. ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES! Hello!?
... Anywhom.
We need to get this started again. D: I miss reading this and all it's insanity. <3
lovelovelove,
L
You know I love it Anna :D
Katie: Wow, that'll be interesting not doing Fantasy. Tell us how it goes! And post anything :D I don't know which stories of the ones I've read you're still writing.
Lauren: Yay for surreal!! We definitely need to start posting here again, hopefully we will with Nano and all its craziness starting up.
For nano this year I think I've decided to rewrite my 08 nano, which will be VERY interesting. I'm excited for it, since my MC is completely different (even the name) and the world got changed a bunch too (old fashioned to modern) I don't think I'll get bored, but still, I've never ever rewritten anything. O_o :D
LYLAS
KK
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