Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Grimm stories for girls

Anyone keeping an eye on the Red Grow the Roses wordcounter this month will have noticed it wasn't moving. This wasn't entirely due to Black-Lace-malaise (or me gadding about on holiday). I have been doing some other work. I've written and subbed a story to Kristina Wright's upcoming anthology Fairy Tale Lust - details here if you want to try for it yourself: you've got until 15th August.

(Damn. Have I jinxed myself by letting on which antho I'm trying to get into?)

In the process of writing I also discovered a LOVELY site: Artsy Craftsy, which is full of Golden Age fairy story illustrations, some familiar and some unknown to me. How can I not be inspired to write by pictures like this:


Or this?

Anyway, yesterday I started again, to my great relief and delight, on Red Grow the Roses. Like my vampires, it cannot be stopped by a mere mortal wound.
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10 comments:

  1. Nikki Magennis29 July 2009 at 10:16

    Wow, I love those paintings, Janine. So instantly evocative, aren't they?

    - Glad to hear you're still working on Red grow the roses!

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  2. Charlotte Stein aka The Mighty Viper29 July 2009 at 11:11

    As though you could jinx yourself! You'll get in, no probs.

    And so, so relieved to hear you're back to writing RGTR! I was terrified just reading that you had stopped writing it for other things, etc.

    Please don't stop. And then hurry up and sell it somewhere so I can read it.

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  3. Sekrit Shoppa29 July 2009 at 11:48

    Hurrah for the roses still growing!

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  4. Janine Ashbless29 July 2009 at 13:47

    Gosh. Thanks guys.
    :-)

    You're all writing too, aren't you? I mean, we don't just stop, do we? What else are we good for?

    (Okay, some people - like Nikki and Kristina - are good for being parents. But not me. Oh no, not me.)

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  5. Nikki Magennis29 July 2009 at 14:02

    I am! slowly - but at least there are words appearing on the page.

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  6. Charlotte Stein aka The Mighty Viper29 July 2009 at 17:48

    I've just finished a novella that I'm sending tonight. There's no stopping any of us!

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  7. Sekrit Shoppa29 July 2009 at 18:21

    Writing is happening...though whether anyone but me will ever read it is a moot point...

    Don't care, though, cos I'm enjoying it & that's the main thing.

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  8. neve black29 July 2009 at 21:26

    Good for you! Go, go, go!! Don't ever stop. :-)

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  9. Chris29 July 2009 at 23:53

    I hope that mortal wounds aren't enough to stop any of you. That's a beautiful turn of phrase Janine.

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  10. Janine Ashbless29 July 2009 at 23:59

    Go us! Go go smutwriters!
    :-)

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