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Research Editor's Picks 1. In an alien zoo Writer's Cramp 2. Forbidden Jocularity 3. A Whale of a Tale 4. The Cuneiform Chronicles 5. The Voice on the Back of the Wind 6. The shifter 7. The Clever Dragon of Nevebrook 8. The Hyperbaric Deep Underground Base 9. The Transformation of Hansel and Gretel Heading 1 Observing the World Around You Heading 2 Getting ideas from observations of the world around you. Hook Have you ever gotten an idea for a story from observing your personal environment? About This Newsletter Hi, I'm {suer:nfdarbe} your editor for this week's edition of the fantasy newsletter. Letter From the Editor Someone reviewed a poem I wrote a few years ago, and when I read it I had to smile. I had forgotten about "A Trick of the Morning Light" ![]() ![]() Both the poem and the story were inspired by items I found in the front yard of a house I used to live in. The rock and the tree were just ordinary things in my personal surroundings. There was nothing special about them until made one of them an ent-wife and the other a spy from another planet. Are there things in your home or yard that could be used as the protagonist or the antagonist of a story or poem? Try this exercise: Get up, walk through your house, go outside and walk through your yard or down the street. Take notice of anything--ordinary or unusual--that catches your attention. Write a description of it, so that you can incorporate it into a science fiction or fantasy story or poem. Have you ever looked at an item--such as a rock, tree, or some ordinary utensil--in your immediate surroundings and transformed it into a character in a story? If so, please submit it to the fantasy newsletter. If not, try the exercise in the previous paragraph, write a story about it, and submit it to the newsletter. Deadline: September 18, 2023. Content rating: 18+. Editors Picks
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