Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors.
Enjoy a little distraction from pandemic worries. Meet writers in various genres and read 8-10 sentence snippets of their stories. Find a new author and sample their work.
I’m continuing with
snippets from the first chapter of a new fantasy story about a witch and an elf.
The main character, Bridget Bramble, lives in a small cottage on the outskirts
of a village. Her plans to go on a foraging expedition in the woods have been
interrupted.
You can read last week’s
snippet here: https://auroraspringer.blogspot.com/2020/11/bridgets-trip-is-postponed-wip-fantasy.html
Please note, it is
unedited and subject to change.
More yelling from below drew her to the window overlooking the road.
She peered out.
Well-armed men in a double line were marching into the village. Their helmets, sword hilts and spear points glinted in the sunlight. They wore thick doublets over kilts of leather dyed dark red. A helmeted man rode a black horse in the vanguard, his blood-red cloak billowing in the breeze. Walking behind the rider, another man carried a banner. In the rear of the column of fifty men, horses pulled two empty wagons.
And
a few extra lines:
As they advanced, she watched in trepidation and puzzlement. Why
were they entering the village? Had they come to collect tithes for King
Athelric? Surely it was too early in the season. The tithe collectors always came
after the harvest was gathered.
Draft Blurb
In a land troubled by invasions from the east,
Bridget Bramble lives in a small village where she barters herbs and carved
buttons. When marauders target her village and murder her family, she flees
into the woods. Armed with her Granny’s advice, and a bag of magic buttons, she
sets out on the perilous journey to Oakenwald, the fabled land where elves and
men live in harmony. But as she travels farther from home, she encounters malicious
creatures from the worst kind of folktales.
Lost in the foothills of the mountains, Bridget
meets the elf, Windswift the Wanderer. He offers to guide her across the
mountain range. But what the elf’s business in human territory? Can an
ordinary, or almost ordinary, human girl trust a cold hearted elf?
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I'm curious as to why they're there as well. For good or nefarious reasons?
ReplyDeleteTheir intentions will become clearer in the next paragraphs.
DeleteAgree, I'm curious, too, why they're there. Well done on the descriptions again :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks. It will soon be revealed.
DeletePossibly. The fact they're wearing similar clothes and colors is more significant - they're organized.
ReplyDeleteAn ominous but vivid scene, can't wait for more! Enjoyed the snippet...
ReplyDeleteGreat. More will be coming.
DeleteThis does not sound good, and for some reason the two empty wagons sound especially ominous!
ReplyDeleteIt's not good.
DeleteOh my--empty wagons do not bode well. Enjoying these snippets! I do want to read this one. :-)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a bad thing. I hope she'll be ok.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct to be worried.
DeleteThis sounds ominous. Men that well armed and in such a force bodes ill for a small village. Great snippet!
ReplyDeleteThank you. You have the right impression.
DeleteGreat description of the armed horde. Nothing good will come of this invasion, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteI apologize for being so late commenting on your post. NaNoWriMo got in the way.
Good luck with NaNo.
DeleteYou're right about the army.