Good evening everyone! Quick update on just a little bit of writing for today. Pretty straightforward bit of point a to point b with a little bit of scenery description. All I really had the focus for today, but still, got a solid page and some practice in.
Since it is a short stretch, I included the entire stretch that I wrote today, which I hope you enjoy and leave me some constructive feedback for. That, and liking and sharing would help me tremendously.
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Writing Time: 20 Minutes
Word Count: 371
Excerpt
With their farewells taken, Tanara and Maelith turned and walked out of the Pavilion. As they had been directed, they followed the river. The river meandered away, turning lazily one way and then another, they were soon out of site of the waterfall pool with the pavilions around it. There was not so much a path along the river as stony banks that allowed them to move quickly. A short distance away on either side, the ground rose, nearly straight up, to about twice Tanara’s height. All manner of roots twisted their way through the dirt. If they had wanted, they probably could have climbed them, but they had been instructed to follow the river, and the land above the banks looked densely wooded, likely harder to travel than the stone they now walked on.
After they had been walking for perhaps an hour, they came to a place where the river split into multiple, much more rapid, channels going off in different directions, all looking to be impassable to follow. After they puzzled over their choices for a few moments, they found one channel of water that raced into a close bunch of bushes and bracken that had looked as difficult to traverse as the others from a distance, seemed to have a small path that they could get through if they crouched. This choice was confirmed by the sound of horses through the bushes.
Taking their packs off to carry before them, they crouched and walked carefully through the bushes. The bushes at first got closer and closer together and then they seemed to melt away entirely. As they looked back the way they came, the thick bushes could not longer be seen, only the channel of water they followed. They had returned to the mortal world. Standing up straight, they shouldered their packs against, and continued to follow the rushing river. It was only a short distance later that the woods gave away to a vibrant, through which the water they followed joined several others and were once more a full river on the far side. Near to them, their two horses, who seemed healthier and better rested then when they had turned them loose several months before.
I hope you all have a wonderful day, get the chance to do or experience something creative, and I’ll catch you on the next one.
– Jon
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