#folkisms

@folkiisms

A devastating sight waited for Velvet as she came across a farm that had its fences crushed, crops burned and animals in chunks of flesh with few live ones remaining. Whatever did this nothing means by normal.

@folkiisms 

Word had spread through Midgand about a wicked witch that had taken a whole town for herself. It was a village that once got trader goods but due to the rumors merchants have tried to avoid passing through to not get cursed. The rumors should be just that, rumors, but this got the interest of a self-proclaimed witch.

“There’s no point in us going. We’ll be wasting time.”

Near the docks, six adventurers were discussing among themselves about going to the village to investigate. The daemons Velvet and Rokurou, Malakhim Laphicet and Eizen, an ex-exorcist Eleanor, and the witch of the group, Magilou. Velvet was against this, not out of fear but more as in not having anything to gain from this detour.

“Can’t you find it in your heart my dear, Velvet? A witch is up staging a true witch!” Magilou exclaimed, but wasn’t really getting any votes.

Eizen sighed as Magilou was very stubborn with this. His frustration caught the witch’s eye however.

“Eizen, witches can be known for casting curses, I would know. Perhaps we could find reversal if this is legit. Help rid your curse?” Magilou worked to convince him.

“If that is true, why don’t you do it?” Eizen asked.

“Ugh! You all are impossible!” Magilou shouted.

The samurai, Rokurou, did come up with an idea. He wouldn’t some adventuring, but he knew he would most likely be left behind if it was just him and Magilou. “If we were able to secure the village, we could use it as our own personal trading center. Maybe even have it as another base for us.”

“That... Could work,” Eizen said.

“You’re really suggesting we go?” Eleanor asked, finding it easy to convince Eizen.

“And Eizen is the first mate, sooo,” Magilou trailed off as she knew getting two on her side meant...

By Gary Earl

Clay Collins, writer of Alternative Productivity and Anti­Hacks for Living, said that he once wrote an article entitled “Why You Should Get Up Whenever You Want,” but no one read it... So he changed the title to “Healthy, Wealthy, and DEAD?: 5 Reasons Why Getting Up Early Might be Harmful,” and got a lot of response! He played off Ben Franklin’s “early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise”, but twisted it.

Good Song example: “Out of the Blue, Clear Sky” by Bob DiPiero. The story goes that George Strait phoned up Bob and said he wanted to cut the song but he’d have to change the hook to “out of the clear blue sky,” because that was the right saying. Bob said “No, you can’t have it then.” (Bob already had a few cuts by then and wasn’t feeling desperate like most writers would be with a Strait cut hanging in the balance.) Bob continued on, “the whole hook to the song is that we’re twisting the old saying around, and that’s the only thing that’ll get everyone’s attention.” Well, George said okay, and the rest is money in the bank.

Write on,

Metrical irregularities are highly typical: music frees the meter

It will become a much more regularized genre in the 19th century

Level of diction is going down – simple language, no archaisms, more folkisms

Modeled on Russian folk songs! (an antique genre)

Almost total absence of imagery: very straightforward!