The sixth prompt for the Folktaleweek 2022 challenge was “Potion”.
So my story continued with – “The Fool gathered up bits of his beloved tree and pounded them in a mortar. The courtiers – now their own characters without their costumes – watched. Then the Fool gave his instructions and handed out the potion.”
Music: The Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers – silvermansound.com
The fifth prompt for Folktaleweek 2022 challenge on Instagram was “Costume”
“He knew he could no longer be the Cruel King’s Fool. And he wondered if a King made the Crown or the Crown made a King…”
Music: The Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers – silvermansound.com
the fourth prompt for Instagram’s Folktaleweek 2022 challenge was “Rebel”
“One morning the Fool found that the Tree, the last in the Kingdom, had been cut down for the King’s firewood. Now the Fool knew what he must do.”
Music: Fantasy Overture by Shane Ivers – silvermansound.com
The third prompt for 2022’s Instagram Folktaleweek was “Star”.
“Some nights the Fool would sit beneath the Tree and watch for Shooting Stars.”
Music: The Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers – silvermansound.com
I like doing Instagram challenges. It stretches me. Making me try new things technically and invent plots and characters. Though the challenges that I take part in are usually childrens book illustration challenges, nobody seems to mind.
An Instagram challenge that takes place around November each year is the Folktale Week challenge . It is a series of seven prompt words, one for each day of the challenge week, intended to conjure up folktale related images. I try to stitch them together into a story.
Last November the first prompt was Fool.
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