Day 6
/Set ye olde timer for 10 minutes and write.
Clean. Simple. Neat.
We've had a week(ish) of warm ups and targets and now you're going to find the story you've been working on, or wanted to work on, and find the scene that's been playing in your head over and over, and you're going to write it, non-stop, for 10 minutes.
No messing, no faffing. Just writing.
If you're currently not working on anything, then pick something from the previous five days - one of the changes you wrote about in Day 4, or maybe something struck a chord with you during the FEAR DAY.
There is a path through the woods that you must follow. If you do not follow the path then terrible things will happen. Or so they say. They may not be wrong but our world would be less interesting if it weren’t for those who wanted to check for themselves. Most of those who stray from the path end up as a smear against a rock, or an interesting mobile hanging from a tree but there are those who discover the terrible things but are not vanquished by them. There are those who learn to live with the terrible things, who may best them or befriend them or leave them be. There are those who avoid the terrible things altogether and leave a life unimagined by anyone else in perfect isolation. Then there are those who clear the new paths through the forest who may bring brand new terrible things into the forest itself or they may bring wonders. Often it is hard to tell which.
Our story begins, as many stories do, with a girl lost in the woods. She is not there by choice and certainly seems to lack any skills that will lead her back out again. Her shoes seem more appropriate for a ballroom than the outdoors, her bodice limits her movement and her long red hair catches on every bush as she passes. Her eyes are red with weeping and the sleeve of her blouse is smeared with snot. She moves quietly but there are creatures here that do not use their ears to track their pray and the smell of her sweat, her snot and her fear carry far down the path and deep into the brambles.