Each
post for the A to Z Challenge is the challenge I set for myself.
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| Becoming a page was the first stage on the path to becoming a knight |
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| F is for FINISHING. |
When it comes to writing, I think F is for Finishing and not letting your focus fizzle out
in the face of the shiny, new idea.
HAL LONGLEAT AND THE TROUBLE WITH TRUTH
Hal shook his head. He’d seen pages
around. The ones at Brockley Castle served at Lord Courtney’s table, they
learned to read with the priest and trained to fight on foot and on horseback
too. Usually, pages arrived to begin training when they were seven years-old.
He was already ten.
Hal frowned again. People were either servants or masters. Pages were the sons of knights and lords. He was a
servant. That was his place in the world.
Could YOU have been gifted with the ability to identify
and eliminate weak and brittle phrases from your work? To the uninitiated,
these interlopers look like quality imagery.
CLICHÉ RAIDERS: REWRITE!
• fast and
furious
• fate
worse than death
• fighting
fit
• fish out
of water
• flog a
dead horse
• forlorn
hope
• fraught
with danger/peril
• frenzy
of activity
• from the
sublime to the ridiculous
• fullness
of time, in the
FOR F, I CHOSE FINISHING. WHAT IS THE SUBJECT OF YOUR F POST?
