"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
To get in practice, I'm going to try getting back in the critiquing game and writing more goofy stories. No use running a marathon if you can't run around the block.
To that end, I'm going to co-write some goofy stories with SPEW. The results should be vaguely entertaining. First, to critique two stories...
Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses ... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth—reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. — Guildenstern (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard)