Karina Sanchez

The snoozing boar

Of course there could always be the one fork in the road where the correct path is barely visible and looks really difficult and there are all sorts of creepy noises over there, while the wrong path looks like a very pleasant walk.

Then you could also have booby traps that would ensnare one of them and the other would have to work very hard to…[Read more]

Haaaaaaaa… The Floating Log. 😉

What if there were things in the mist— illusions— that tried to get them off the path? Like the voice of a child crying for help, or the screams of a woman in distress, or a weeping baby? Things that would appeal to their heart and make them jump out to save something without thinking, but in the end are not really there.

The broken wheel

The herdsmen’s table

The slumbering stag

The anvil and the cross

You probably don’t want to know. 😛

The Wailing Wombat.

The Dangling Snake.

The Boat and Bulrush. (I’ve used that one already).

The Fish and Lilypad.

The Lobster and Limpet.

Ha ha, I wonder what type of inn that would be.

Ooh… I like that one. Makes me wonder where it got its name. 🙂

The sign of the lonely nymph.

Ha! The Howling Frog! Love it. So fun. 😀

I like The Screaming Falcon, too, @Hope. Nice and dramatic. I like both the funny and the sophisticated ones. Once I used ‘The Leaf and Thorn’ when I didn’t want to go for the humorous twist.

Great job, both of you. All of those would definitely qualify as inn names.

The Dog and Partridge (didn’t make…[Read more]

… How did I sense you would be the one that started this topic.

Here I go.

“The sign of the wingless fowl”

“Black tiger inn”

“The toothless Gaul”

“The black beet tavern”

“The howling frog”

“Half a pint of crow’s feet”

“Rotten oak tavern”

“The inn of the twelve pines”

Well, think of it this way. What I really said is, “I think I can keep it down to about five hundred pages, six hundred at most. The thing is, I’m only about a seventh of the way through, so I have no idea what might wiggle its way into my story.”

I could also say, “I think I can keep my book to about a quarter of the length of the entire…[Read more]

Ugh… lucky you.

*Cringe* God help me!

I think I can keep it under 200,000 words though

Thank you so much for taking the time to critique my poem, Daeus! I really like your suggestions. 🙂

My sentiments exactly.

This poem is very good in that it gives one feel and then caries that same feel without turning to astray to another throughout its entirety, growing ever stronger and stronger. The one problem with this poem is that it is a little to prose-y in some parts. You use a lot of slant rhyme which is excellent, but where you…[Read more]

@Hope Yes! The end of Mockingjay was very sad…and depressing.