*SUPER SPINNY LIKY HUGS* a vote!?!
Beasty your the best!!
OK, so I promised to say more about the map elements in my story after voting...
Congratulations Hex! Too well written, I couldn't vote for it because I know too many moms who would endanger their kids by hiding their ticket to the future under their bed. Vast expansive world that ran off with my imagination into an epic of struggle that never guarantees success or even survival.
Clearly a deserved win.
But back to my not so mapped out dystopia.
I was sitting in the election office counting ballots, random songs sticking in my head, and "Winter Wonderland" starts playing but with off lyrics
"In the meadow we can build a snowman,
And pretend that he is parson Brown.
He'll say 'are you married?'
We'll say 'go man!' then 'you can do the job when your in town'"
I giggled and tried to imagine our
@Parson as a snowman agreeing to marrying people in a snowy dystopia.
Next part
"Later on, we'll perspire,
As we scheme, by the fire.
Then face unafraid, the plans that we made,
Walkin' in dystopian underworld"
Sealed it! I had to write a parody.
But I still didn't know how to write a story about a map.
**hours of tedious mind numbing work later**
Still nothing, but the tune keeps dancing around and the world it's spinning gets darker and dirtier.
On a whim on a break I scribble it down, pretty much as posted, on a recipe for cookies one of my coworkers brought in (with the cookies we'd been enjoying the last two days)
In truth the map elements are just the landscape mentions. "Over the river and through the woods (to grandmother's house we go, the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh thru the white and drifting snow)" but now the woods are full of wolves... giant white dire wolves with venomous fangs and demonic eyes...
So I put in "howls of wolves make us shiver"
Later reduced to "howling wolves induce shivers" because word count.
Anarchy leads to war creates dystopia, "from the rubble we can build a shelter" and humanity's favorite game "then pretend that we are all OK"
What would be the least OK, and rhyme? nuclear decay, dissolving.
I gotta call this place something, it's not a wonderland anymore. Apocalyptic World is descriptive and the right number of syllables.
Needs more map...
But I loved it, so I checked my "is this one word or two" found I was within word count and in a fit of "I'll never have time to write something else this month and I love this despite its obvious defects" I posted.
So again, super special thank you to all my mentioners!
And a fistbump to
@Starbeast for the vote!
