Well, maybe it's obvious that Halloween itself isn’t my ‘bag’. I went in a completely different direction with an All Hallows’ *Day* story that hoped to find some/any meaning at all in the pointless national orgy of phantasms, an occasion as empty of meaning as the mountain of collected candy is of nutritional value. What's ‘scary’ to me about Halloween is people’s energetic embrace of “circus” and denial of reality and its genuine mysteries.
I am pleased with several literary elements of my story, but I never really expected I had a chance this week. For me, the lesson of this exercise is knowing your audience and their expectations. It is possible to exceed their expectations and pleasantly surprise them, but intentionally disregarding and running counter to their expectations is inviting disappointment. A poorly received effort might be a mundane case of mistaken marketing.
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Well, maybe it's obvious that Halloween itself isn’t my ‘bag’. I went in a completely different direction with an All Hallows’ *Day* story that hoped to find some/any meaning at all in the pointless national orgy of phantasms, an occasion as empty of meaning as the mountain of collected candy is of nutritional value. What's ‘scary’ to me about Halloween is people’s energetic embrace of “circus” and denial of reality and its genuine mysteries.
I am pleased with several literary elements of my story, but I never really expected I had a chance this week. For me, the lesson of this exercise is knowing your audience and their expectations. It is possible to exceed their expectations and pleasantly surprise them, but intentionally disregarding and running counter to their expectations is inviting disappointment. A poorly received effort might be a mundane case of mistaken marketing.
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