January Writing Prompt Challenge: Day 28
Jan. 28th, 2021 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerBit of a grumpy day today - not too bad, but just... a few moments of frustration, you know? But I went for nice walks and ate good food and I have laundry on. I'm taking care of myself. And after this, maybe a little reading and a video game.
But first!
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT PROMPT:
An unlucky god wants to establish loyalty through a letter, but it will turn them into someone they never wanted to be.
This just screams Terry Pratchett, right? The tone of it - this God trying to lay down the rules of worship in a letter, but they always just leave enough ambiguity to cause problems. So they keep sitting down every milennium or two to try to fix things and every time it just introduces a new problem. So finally they sit down to pen a letter that they hope will eliminate all possibility of people misinterpreting, or finding loopholes... and to do this, they basically became a lawyer. Bereft of the warmth and love they once wanted to shine down.
The structure of this one could be fun - almost epistolary, each letter just getting more and more grumpy as they have to correct peoples' misinterpretations and twisting. And there has to be a running gag, that can get called back at the end, after the full lawyer-ese takes effect.
Yeah, okay, this is fun.
But first!
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT PROMPT:
An unlucky god wants to establish loyalty through a letter, but it will turn them into someone they never wanted to be.
This just screams Terry Pratchett, right? The tone of it - this God trying to lay down the rules of worship in a letter, but they always just leave enough ambiguity to cause problems. So they keep sitting down every milennium or two to try to fix things and every time it just introduces a new problem. So finally they sit down to pen a letter that they hope will eliminate all possibility of people misinterpreting, or finding loopholes... and to do this, they basically became a lawyer. Bereft of the warmth and love they once wanted to shine down.
The structure of this one could be fun - almost epistolary, each letter just getting more and more grumpy as they have to correct peoples' misinterpretations and twisting. And there has to be a running gag, that can get called back at the end, after the full lawyer-ese takes effect.
Yeah, okay, this is fun.
