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I've decided to toss my hat in the ring for the most recent 
Thursday_Prompt. Mainly for practice but also as a short side project alongside my main one.
The word for this one was 'connotation' and it left me at a loss for ideas, then I remembered a bit of information concerning the development of the tank during the first world war. Namely how 'tank' was used as a code name for the machine in order to throw the Germans off into thinking the British were merely transporting water or fuel.
I nearly dismissed this idea, but in the end I decided to give it the benefit of a doubt and carried on with it.
Feedback and Critiques are much appreciated.
Thursday_Prompt. Mainly for practice but also as a short side project alongside my main one.The word for this one was 'connotation' and it left me at a loss for ideas, then I remembered a bit of information concerning the development of the tank during the first world war. Namely how 'tank' was used as a code name for the machine in order to throw the Germans off into thinking the British were merely transporting water or fuel.
I nearly dismissed this idea, but in the end I decided to give it the benefit of a doubt and carried on with it.
Feedback and Critiques are much appreciated.
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Many thanks, fĂlos (friend)
I suppose I've an equal amount of interest in both world wars, mainly the aviation side of them and mostly how despairing such events would be to anyone alive during that time.
So to the question of more; all I can say is that time will tell.
I suppose I've an equal amount of interest in both world wars, mainly the aviation side of them and mostly how despairing such events would be to anyone alive during that time.
So to the question of more; all I can say is that time will tell.
Thank you Vixyy *smiles*
part of the reason for writing this was to see how much I could get a reader attached to multiple characters in a short space of time...and I'm curious as to which ones you found particularly interesting. I agree that its hard to imagine how anyone stayed sane in the trenches...let alone how they kept their morale up.
I think the follow on and ensuing downer ending was inevitable, considering the setting...
part of the reason for writing this was to see how much I could get a reader attached to multiple characters in a short space of time...and I'm curious as to which ones you found particularly interesting. I agree that its hard to imagine how anyone stayed sane in the trenches...let alone how they kept their morale up.
I think the follow on and ensuing downer ending was inevitable, considering the setting...
The "Great" War. Mechanized death on the battlefield and from above.
I guess the War to End All Wars failed in this reality as well.
Seeing the different species: canine, lapine, equine and feline banding together for King and Country gives a small hope.
And yes, given the events of the Somme and Passchendaele and the dreaded gas attacks, the story could not have ended any much better. Maybe Stiles survived in part due to the wise words of his Lance Corporal.
I guess the War to End All Wars failed in this reality as well.
Seeing the different species: canine, lapine, equine and feline banding together for King and Country gives a small hope.
And yes, given the events of the Somme and Passchendaele and the dreaded gas attacks, the story could not have ended any much better. Maybe Stiles survived in part due to the wise words of his Lance Corporal.
Yeah, bit of an oxymoron on both counts. If anything the war was only an eerie foreshadowing of things to come.
The camaraderie between the four species is certainly a hope spot, I agree, It wasn't something I considered when I originally wrote this piece. It was merely a matter of wanting some diversity in my exercise on character interactions, and how quickly I could get the reader invested in them emotionally.
I like to think he took those words to heart as well. Stiles' story doesn't end here either, I wrote a sequel some months after which explores the after effects the war had on him, and the generations after him.
And although its non-canonical to those stories, Stiles and the rest of his section make one final appearance in an even later story as well, something akin to metafiction.
The camaraderie between the four species is certainly a hope spot, I agree, It wasn't something I considered when I originally wrote this piece. It was merely a matter of wanting some diversity in my exercise on character interactions, and how quickly I could get the reader invested in them emotionally.
I like to think he took those words to heart as well. Stiles' story doesn't end here either, I wrote a sequel some months after which explores the after effects the war had on him, and the generations after him.
And although its non-canonical to those stories, Stiles and the rest of his section make one final appearance in an even later story as well, something akin to metafiction.
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