Look, I'm Back!

Busy times are busy, but I try to leverage everything that is demanded of me, by myself and others. During the few sparse, awake and creative moments I had last week, I contemplated a bit more Nadiya's life and decided to give her a partner.
Now that I come to think about that, I get the feeling that my flashes are all a bit too heterosexual... I hope nobody gets offended by that! The specific experiment in Fifteen needed to be heterosexual though, since it's also about the good old way of producing offspring.

Prompt fifteen was

""Fear not," he said, in a voice as soft as silk"

which I liked for the topic I chose, but found difficult to include anyway. Having that as the first sentence of a conversation and then a "he" saying it is quite unusual.

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Another Fateful Encounter

The next Flash is finally online! It's 13, my favourite number. :-) The prompt was one of my favourites as well:

"just as lightning sweeps across the sky, pouring out a flood of light over the landscape for a second or two"

It was easy to identify with, take up the style and produce something new, in this case the first encounter of Elisabet and John, both of whom you've met before. They'll have a daughter called Nadiya later. ;-)

Talking about fateful encounters... Do you believe fate exists? Or serendipity, or something similar? In this case, one could argue that two people fell in love because they have something in common already: taking walks where no one normally does. Is that enough of a reason to reject fate?

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Help Wanted

Writers, do you know this? You have the outline of a story in your mind, but when you start writing one of the characters comes out the opposite from what you planned, changing the whole story. You try to go with it, but when it's done you hate the outcome. What do you do then?

That's exactly what happened to me with Twelve. I started to write and suddenly the interviewer was an absolute bitch, changing the whole script! I needed some days away from it all to be able to start again. So much time gone to waste! To make matters worse, I've caught a nice, dizzying cold and can't really judge the quality of my writing just now. That's where you come in! Please, if you have some time to spare, go read Twelve and send me your feedback.

By the way, the prompt was

"for there's no sense in believing what's right unless it leads to helping people in distress"

so I can't change that specific sentence. How did I implement it into the story? 

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Angels Again!

"many people are terribly frightened when they see one of the angels of the Lord"

After all, The Christmas Mystery is a book based on religion. What can one do?
Exactly, get back to Arthur and ask him to make another appearance. I think he rather liked his role, to tell the truth. I hope it won't go to his head!

Otherwise, there's not much to tell. Nadiya will be back with the next post with more news.
I hope you remembered Anne! But can you guess who Nadiya's mother is as well?

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