You're in good company as far as writing for children- it's hard to believe a book called 'The Hobbit' was originally a bedtime story for a little boy .
A good read for a rainy Sunday- looking forward to the next installment.
Fascinating. Your story is very close to the way we witches actually get together, although I stopped going 200 years ago because the same people always talked about the same things. Witches are much like baseball fans.
My sons were a year apart, 2 and 3 when we moved into a sufficiently larger house. Mom and I finished the unfinished lower level (I'd never done paint or trim or carpet--hellish incompetence) and made a bedroom/playroom out this this huge space. My most creative story telling came from standing beside their bunk beds, exhausted, getting them to be still and quiet enough to go to sleep. The tale could only be told at bedtime, and cliffhangers were crucial. I might've tried to write the story down, but was too tired. I remember the title character, as do my now 30-somethings: King of the Doitykoots. He had various misadventures quite similar to, but exaggerated versions of, their own wanderings, injuries, imaginings--but with happy and improbable results. Stories are everything.
Loved it! You really had my inner child giggling throughout. I read with ease and excitement. Thanks for giving us a magical moment in our time of great tyrannical tortures.
This is wonderful, I hope we'll have a chance to read the rest!
I don't care about the other stuff. Please publish the next chapter of this book!
You're in good company as far as writing for children- it's hard to believe a book called 'The Hobbit' was originally a bedtime story for a little boy .
A good read for a rainy Sunday- looking forward to the next installment.
Perhaps I’ll post my children’s book too!
You are an awesome force - and so inspiring
Reminds me of the best of Lloyd Alexander. PLEASE publish this book.
Fascinating. Your story is very close to the way we witches actually get together, although I stopped going 200 years ago because the same people always talked about the same things. Witches are much like baseball fans.
My sons were a year apart, 2 and 3 when we moved into a sufficiently larger house. Mom and I finished the unfinished lower level (I'd never done paint or trim or carpet--hellish incompetence) and made a bedroom/playroom out this this huge space. My most creative story telling came from standing beside their bunk beds, exhausted, getting them to be still and quiet enough to go to sleep. The tale could only be told at bedtime, and cliffhangers were crucial. I might've tried to write the story down, but was too tired. I remember the title character, as do my now 30-somethings: King of the Doitykoots. He had various misadventures quite similar to, but exaggerated versions of, their own wanderings, injuries, imaginings--but with happy and improbable results. Stories are everything.
Loved it! You really had my inner child giggling throughout. I read with ease and excitement. Thanks for giving us a magical moment in our time of great tyrannical tortures.
Add wizard to your resume. Your pen is your wand, and it casts its spell and leaves us all hanging in the air…but hopefully not too long!
This is the kind of thing I want to find in Substack. Keep telling …
Great first chapter, Ted. I look forward to reading more when you choose to write and publish it.
I hope to have this as a physical book!
Awe. Now we have to have more! It would be impolite and not very wizardly of you, not to post more.
Well, I am certainly interested . What’s going to happen next?
And....then what happened? It's not fair to share the first part and leave us on a cliffhanger.