Hi, my name is Lyca (they/them and she/her). I am joining from the Appalachian Trail, where I am writing from this trail season. I appreciated that the prompts rolled together and built off of each other as I wrote and followed along.
For my climate story, I was thinking about writing a plural identity piece, where a child is looking up from a prismatic landscape (a Laurel grove), splits into many different parts, and then also re-weaves herself into a being that can resist and survive climate change. This all came to me from the prompt of imagining an encountered with the more-than-human world.
I am primarily a poet and essayist, so I am trying my hand at climate fiction, with a compromise that it will be experimental and probably sound like a prosaic poem. Thanks for everyone’s patience with me as I straddle genres :)
were we thinking of any specific word count requirements for these stories? Mine came in at the brief end of what might be considered a short story, want to make sure that's alright.
Hi, my name is Lyca (they/them and she/her). I am joining from the Appalachian Trail, where I am writing from this trail season. I appreciated that the prompts rolled together and built off of each other as I wrote and followed along.
For my climate story, I was thinking about writing a plural identity piece, where a child is looking up from a prismatic landscape (a Laurel grove), splits into many different parts, and then also re-weaves herself into a being that can resist and survive climate change. This all came to me from the prompt of imagining an encountered with the more-than-human world.
I am primarily a poet and essayist, so I am trying my hand at climate fiction, with a compromise that it will be experimental and probably sound like a prosaic poem. Thanks for everyone’s patience with me as I straddle genres :)
How wonderful. Can’t wait to see where this takes you.
Also The Overstory by Richard Powers = TREES!
Thanks for posting. This was a helpful kickoff to my brainstorming!
Wonderful. Thanks for joining.
were we thinking of any specific word count requirements for these stories? Mine came in at the brief end of what might be considered a short story, want to make sure that's alright.
Any length is fine.
This reminded me a lot of The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard. Worth a read!
I really enjoyed the replay - I'm excited to see what comes from everyone. Some intelligent and expansive thinkers gathered for this project!
So glad you're a part of this.
Thank you 💞