Warrior Wednesday & Sword & Saturday Prompt: May The Month of Mothers & Ladies
Yes, we're going to have a female centric month
We’ve done several prompts already, we had the month of love with Febuary, we then had Dragon-Month in March, and then finally we had our month where we decided to write (in some cases) about scribes.
May as a month is a peculiar one, I’ve never given it much thought and know plenty who hadn’t around me also, and yet it is host to that very important of holidays; ‘Mother’s Day’. It is important because mothers’ do need honouring, do merit praise for all that they do for their children.
Classically the ‘divine feminine’ was an integral part of literature, and of philosophy with the notion of fighting for lady fair being something of a beautiful theme, and considered to be the highest honour that a knight can aspire to. It was only with the onset of modernity that things turned on their head, and we had the notion of the feminine ‘subverted’ so that female leads ‘ape’ at being men.
Now it’s fine to have an Eowyn/Valeria styled character, please do write those stories we need those, more in fact. As those characters do not ape at being men, but rather honour their feminine nature while also proving themselves to be worthy warriors on a par with many male characters.
It’s just that we mustn’t forget about motherhood or womanhood at all. Also the due date for this prompt will be May the 18th, I realize Mother’s Day is on the 12th but that falls on a Sunday, and I’d rather also give a little more time for this prompt than just a 2-3 weeks.
So here we are for Warrior Wednesdays’s prompt;
You must have a heroic lead
He must rescue either his own mother, or the mother of another, or fight to rescue lady-fair (I leave it in your hands which)
The story must be 10,000 words long
Sword & Saturday now;
Your lead must be hyper-masculine
10,000 words also
The villain must be a monster (but not a dragon), I say not a dragon as we already did that, so let’s try to use a different mythological monster (be it a cyclops, chimera, kraken, or a tribe of angry Frog-men or something)
Your female lead must be a member of the nobility or clergy just to shake things up (motherhood can play a factor if you want)
Essay Writers:
5 pages long, and discussing the importance of the divine feminine or how she has influenced fantasy/mythological literature
Bards/Poets:
At least 1 page long
Write about the beauty of motherhood, and such
Artists:
Draw one character or scene from one of the stories in our Warrior Wednesday or Sword & Saturday line-up, this way you get practice and the writer gets’ to experience something truly grand by having his work immortalized that way
And that’s a wrap, after May we’ll be doing Father’s Day, then for July I’m not sure, we’ll figure something out, so here we go! Let’s write the best stuff we can!