I don't know if you've ever seen the "Aesop and Son" segments of "Rocky and Bullwinkle", but I was kind of thinking this might have worked as one of those...
Have you ever met someone who was deceptively unintelligent? (Is it me?) Almost every inmate at the jail. So, yes.
Do you know Aesop’s Fables? I do.
How do you like your eggs for breakfast? Depends on the day. Usually, four eggs mixed, poured into the skillet, and folded in half with sausage or ham. If I want something different, scrambled.
Enjoyed this one! There’s a podcast called Future Fables in which famous authors read a story they wrote that’s a modern retelling of a fable. I loved The River Cat’s Brother by Amwaeke Emezi!
From childhood and because my dad made KILLER Eggs Benedict, (it was ALL about the Hollandaise sauce), probably poached eggs are my favorite.
(I've never been able to duplicate my dad's Hollandaise sauce. The ONLY place I've found that does was, of all places, at Disney World, at one of the restaurants at Grand Floridian.)
Thank you very much! Different exercises have different rules--I may apply additional constraints to Fables, but it is difficult to "humanize" them efficiently without just recapitulating the original fable.
The section of Gibberish where I write Exercises is called "The Writing Gym" so I use that imagery to separate my different exercises: A "Crunch" is a 250 word story, a "Stretch" is a 500 word story; a "Sprint" is writing for 5 minutes; a "Relay" is writing with a given first line. Sometimes I will look up prompts, many times I take prompts from suggestions from readers or from things I see around Notes, often I will make up my own prompts based on ideas I have.
I probably should have re-introduced this! I will be more thorough in next weeks exercise! I hope this helps for now, thank you so much for reading!
I'm glad you shared this info about your exercises, it makes more sense now. Maybe it's because I haven't read many Fables, but I'm confused with how this one works. Is it based on a particular fable?
This one is new for 2024! Yes, this is based on a book of Aesop's fables, this one is called "The Fox and the Mask"--which I see you found! Would it be helpful for me to include the original fable? I wondered if the mystery made it better or not!
I've heard of Aesop's fables; I couldn't say I'm familiar with them such that I could pinpoint a particular fable by number (Oh, of course, the one with the owl, that's fable 27). :)
I'm actually not keen on eggs much at all; now if we were talking waffles or pancakes, I do like that. Growing up we used to have pancakes on Saturday mornings and man, those were the best.
Seems Lord Reginald himself is a bit…well, scrambled. As for me, I like the steamed eggs my mom makes. We start by tossing the chicken in the steam room, massaging its shoulders, and giving it a seaweed wrap. Then once the egg is out, we roll it around on hot stones before finally cracking and whisking it then sticking it in the stainless steel steamer for a quick 10 min. You should try it sometimes. 💯
I don't know if you've ever seen the "Aesop and Son" segments of "Rocky and Bullwinkle", but I was kind of thinking this might have worked as one of those...
I will have to look them up! LOL!
Given the show they came from, they are of course very cleverly written.
Have you ever met someone who was deceptively unintelligent? (Is it me?) Almost every inmate at the jail. So, yes.
Do you know Aesop’s Fables? I do.
How do you like your eggs for breakfast? Depends on the day. Usually, four eggs mixed, poured into the skillet, and folded in half with sausage or ham. If I want something different, scrambled.
Enjoyed this one! There’s a podcast called Future Fables in which famous authors read a story they wrote that’s a modern retelling of a fable. I loved The River Cat’s Brother by Amwaeke Emezi!
From childhood and because my dad made KILLER Eggs Benedict, (it was ALL about the Hollandaise sauce), probably poached eggs are my favorite.
(I've never been able to duplicate my dad's Hollandaise sauce. The ONLY place I've found that does was, of all places, at Disney World, at one of the restaurants at Grand Floridian.)
I'm new to these exercises - do you have constraints that you impose on the story? A certain word count, or amount of dialogue?
I thought this well well done. Good characterization in few words, especially given the original text doesn't provide a huge body to work from.
Thank you very much! Different exercises have different rules--I may apply additional constraints to Fables, but it is difficult to "humanize" them efficiently without just recapitulating the original fable.
The section of Gibberish where I write Exercises is called "The Writing Gym" so I use that imagery to separate my different exercises: A "Crunch" is a 250 word story, a "Stretch" is a 500 word story; a "Sprint" is writing for 5 minutes; a "Relay" is writing with a given first line. Sometimes I will look up prompts, many times I take prompts from suggestions from readers or from things I see around Notes, often I will make up my own prompts based on ideas I have.
I probably should have re-introduced this! I will be more thorough in next weeks exercise! I hope this helps for now, thank you so much for reading!
I'm glad you shared this info about your exercises, it makes more sense now. Maybe it's because I haven't read many Fables, but I'm confused with how this one works. Is it based on a particular fable?
Whoops, I see this is the Fox and the Mask... Will look that up.
This one is new for 2024! Yes, this is based on a book of Aesop's fables, this one is called "The Fox and the Mask"--which I see you found! Would it be helpful for me to include the original fable? I wondered if the mystery made it better or not!
I’d love a link at least, or the original text at the bottom!
Future versions will include it!
I've heard of Aesop's fables; I couldn't say I'm familiar with them such that I could pinpoint a particular fable by number (Oh, of course, the one with the owl, that's fable 27). :)
I'm actually not keen on eggs much at all; now if we were talking waffles or pancakes, I do like that. Growing up we used to have pancakes on Saturday mornings and man, those were the best.
Seems Lord Reginald himself is a bit…well, scrambled. As for me, I like the steamed eggs my mom makes. We start by tossing the chicken in the steam room, massaging its shoulders, and giving it a seaweed wrap. Then once the egg is out, we roll it around on hot stones before finally cracking and whisking it then sticking it in the stainless steel steamer for a quick 10 min. You should try it sometimes. 💯
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