The Great Roundabout!, an exercise in short story creation

nice See, what you do is, you make it a 300 page letter Then there's no room for complaint. Except they may not like the format you use when submitting the manuscript...
But if you argue too much, maybe you can contact some other European connection...

Yeah, I was thinking about Franz in Munich. He might be retired though, I don't know.

Oh, that's priceless. The mark down the page would be nothing compared to the warm puddle under the --
never mind.

This is such a nice forum to find, and so unexpected! Don't know why I'm only just looking in here now.

CelticCoalition, I like that piece a lot. It's so sensory -- especially tactile. And brave too, in the 1st person (I find that the very hardest to do.)

I'm an admin at an adult Harry Potter commentary site. We have this exercise we started called "If these things could speak," that was created to work on exactly that "first person" challenge. (Also to get away from the typical fanfiction drill.) They were monologues by inanimate objects from the books. I love that strict (yet within strict, boundless) feeling you can get with a controlled form or subject, then the infinite ways you can make it express.

Thank you for your input on my little story.

I think that the inanimate object exercise sounds interesting. I might have to try writing a quick little bit on that.

I like the "if these things could speak" thing! Might have to try that.