brainstorming questions:

1) (direct) mid-size (10-12 ish?) red haired girl, lives on a giant sci-fi tourbus that goes through faerie. Likes machines. What's her name?

2) (tangential) What happens to your personal mythologies (the monster under the bed, your imaginary friend, the fantasy land you were going to end up in when you stepped through the mirror or whatnot...) when you grow up? [[do they change & stick with you, disappear when forgotten, carry on without you in some other direction?]]

All answers welcome. (personal/hypothetical/references to works of fiction/etc)

One more!

Place names in faerie?

My Wood doesn't have named places in it. But I'm sure other people's faerie lands have castles and markets and towns/cities and things with actual names. I just can't think of what any of them are... Feel free to borrow from any source, although citation is also appreciated. (So's I can go and look it up, that is.)

with thanks to laeticiav

2008 Bulwer-Lytton contest winners!

My favorite, I think, is the last runner up for historical fiction, although like so many others, I have absolutely no idea what it actually means:

Carmen's romance with Broderick had thus far been like a train ride, not the kind that slowly leaves the station, builds momentum, and then races across the countryside at breathtaking speed, but rather the one that spends all day moving freight cars around at the local steel mill.